Beschrijving
An officer holding a spike with his left hand, the right arm folded on the back. On the background scenes from a battle field. From the New Hollstein, about the series: ‘Previously attributed by Bartsch to an anonymous member of the Goltzius workshop, in he manner of Jacques de Gheyn. Here attributed to Jan Muller; on the verso of the proof-impressions in Amsterdam marks in red chalck indicate that this print belonged to the group of proof-impressions of his own prints which Jan Muller kept together during his life’. Sigend on the bottom left: ‘HGoltzius excud.’ (HG monogrammed); two lines of text in Latin at the bottom: ‘Laudata ducibus… consuluisse metu’. On the verso collector’s mark Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin [L.1634 (1921)]; partial watermark