# St. John the Evangelist

**Bartholomaeus Spranger** (Flemish, 1546–1611)  
c. 1590  
Etching on ivory laid paper  
Sheet (trimmed): 15.3 × 20.5 cm (6 1/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.480. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/264832).

## About this work

Bartholomaeus Spranger made this in about 1590, aged 44. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of etching on ivory laid paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Etching.** The artist draws with a needle through a waxy coating on a copper plate, and acid bites the exposed lines. The plate is then inked, wiped and printed under pressure, so the line keeps the freedom of drawing.
- **Laid paper.** Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

### [Bartholomaeus Spranger](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/bartholomaeus-spranger)

Flemish, 1546–1611

## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: Flanders
- The artist was 44
- Real size: about 6 × 8 in (15 × 20 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 16th century
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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