Identification title(s): judgment of paris. Object type: print object number: ng-2011-57-4. Description: in a forest landscape, pallas, juno and venus stand opposite paris with a shepherd's crook and a ram next to them. Above them floats amor, aiming at paris with a bow and arrow. On the right mercury is hidden in a tree. In the bottom margin a four-line latin text. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: zacharias dolendo (attributed to), writer: heyman jacobi (mentioned on object), publisher: joos de bosscher (mentioned on object). Place of manufacture: amsterdam. Dating: 1580 - 1596. Physical features: engraving. Material: paper technique: engraving (printing process). Dimensions: sheet: h 285 mm × w 367 mm explanation the prints in the nova zembla collection were forced to be left behind in the winter camp, the 'behouden huis', on the island during an expedition by willem barendsz and jacob van heemskerk in 1596-1597. The prints were brought from amsterdam in one or more stacks as merchandise. Almost three centuries later, in 1871, the norwegian elling carlsen returned to nova zembla and found the remains of the 'preserved house', including a large part of the inventory. Some of the prints, in the form of caked clods, were also found. The clumps of paper were sometimes broken in several places. The prints were separated between 1975 and 1979. This resulted in a total of approximately 1000 fragments of approximately 400 prints of approximately 150 different prints. As far as possible, the fragments have been put together and the prints have been reconstructed. Subject: what: the judgment of paris (mercury present). Journey of barendsz and van heemskerck in 1596. Acquisition: transfer of management 1892. Date: between 1580 and 1596.
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