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from 1560, the couple is portrayed in their shop (the rest of the building and street is from an architectural fantasy by Hans Vredeman de Vries). The print has two inscriptions, "IIII vens" (i.e. Quatre Vents) and a pun based on the meanings in Dutch of their respective names, i.e. 'Cock' means 'a
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became a prestigious publishing house that published about 2,000 prints during its half century of existence. Cock and Diericx specialized in high quality etchings and engravings, made by the best European specialists, offered a wide variety in subject selection, and exported to all corners of the
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Hieronymus Cock. De renaissance in prent. Joris van Grieken, Ger Luijtenen Jan van der Stock (ed.), Tentoonstellingscatalogus, 2013, Mercatorfonds, Brussel, Illuminare – Studiecentrum voor Middeleeuwse Kunst (KU
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without the name of her husband Cock. She remarried and she and her second husband Lambrecht Bottin are mentioned along with
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founded an important publishing house in Antwerp, which she continued to operate after the death of her husband.
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After the death of her husband in 1570 all the prints published by their publishing house carried the sentence
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at the top of a list of print makers and print sellers in Antwerp, which was compiled between 1577 and 1580.
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Diericx died in Antwerp and left over 1,600 copper plates and a large inventory of prints in her estate.
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Name also spelled as: Volcxken Diercx, Volcxken Diericx, Volcxken Dierickx
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world. From 1551 until Cock's death, the couple employed the engravers
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Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferioris effigies
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Johannes Wierix
Antwerp
Hieronymus Cock
Antwerp
Hieronymus Cock
New Exchange
Tapissierspand
Johannes van Deutecum
Aux Quatre Vents in a 1560 print
Detail

Dominicus Lampsonius
Pieter Breugel the Elder
Lucas
Joannes van Deutecum
Giorgio Ghisi
Cornelis Cort
Philips Galle
Maarten van Heemskerck
Lambert Lombard
Hans Vredeman de Vries
Michiel Coxcie
Frans Floris
Hendrik Goltzius
Haarlem
Christophe Plantin


Volcxken Diericx

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