Joseph Mulder
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Joseph Mulder (1658, Amsterdam – ca.1728, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age printmaker, known as a "renowned engraver".[1]
Along with Pieter Sluyter, he did many of the etchings for the classic book Insects of Surinam (Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium) based on field drawings done by Maria Sibylla Merian.[2] This book, described as "magnificent"[3]
included early scientific study of the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies.
An engraving by Mulder illustrates the title page of the 1700 edition, published in Leiden, of Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo.[4] This engraving shows Aristotle, Ptolemy and Copernicus.
Mulder's etchings are actively collected today.
Biography
According to Houbraken he was a good etcher who had been the pupil of the Amsterdam painter Hendrick Bogaert in 1672.[5] Mulder played a similar prank with a baby as Adriaen Brouwer had done; namely to poop himself on the baby after the baby had soiled him while he was holding it on his lap.[5] When the mother asked what he was doing, he replied that they were "shitting each other".[5] Houbraken mentioned that he was singing the song "Toen Hanselijn over de heide reed" (When Hans rode over the heath) and jogged the baby on his knee until the diaper fell off.[5] This song was published in the popular songbook ‘Haerlemsch Oudt Liedtboeck’, in 1716, that had 33 songs that were the same as an Amsterdam songbook of the same period. Houbraken claimed Mulder copied this story from Brouwer.[6]
According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was an engraver and printmaker who had been a pupil of Hendrick Bogaert and followed Romeyn de Hooghe.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).
References
- ^ Reitsma, Ella (2008). Maria Sibylla Merian & daughters: women of art and science. Amsterdam: Rembrandt House Museum. ISBN 9780892369386.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Wettengl, Kurt (1998). Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-1717: artist and naturalist. Verlag Gerd Hatje.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Blunt, Wilfrid (1950). The art of botanical illustration: an illustrated history. Courier Dover Publications. p. 128. ISBN 9780486272658.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Patrick, James (2007). Renaissance and Reformation. Vol. 1. Marshall Cavendish. p. 60. ISBN 9780761476511.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b c d Template:Languageicon Joseph Mulder Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ The Schouwburg article on Mulder appeared in Volume III of the Schouburg in 1721, while the article on Brouwer had been published in Volume I in 1718