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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26602
People
Jan van de Velde II, Dutch (Rotterdam(?), Netherlands 1593 - 1641 Enkhuizen, Netherlands)
Title
May
Other Titles
Alternate Title: the Zijlpoort in Haarlem from the south-west, in reverse
Series/Book Title: Twelve Months
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1634
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/165411

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
plate: 16 x 21.5 cm (6 5/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • legend: sky, upper center, and lower margin, printer's ink, engraved, Latin: title and descriptive stanza: MAIUS / Nescio an hiuc dederint majores nomina mensi. / Hoc scio, quod juvenum dignior ille choris. / [zodaical sign for Gemini] / Cernis ut in molli compotent gramine ab una / Patre, alia liquidis cÿmba feratur aquis.
  • inscription: verso, brown ink, handwritten: in a 17th-century calligraphic hand, perhaps an acronym for the series title and date:
    . S : P . M / . 1 . 6 . 3 . 4 / . 6 . [this is plate 6 of the series, if one starts counting with the title plate; in the second state the added number, 5, is that of the month]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
H. 63, F.-K. 179

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Light-Outerbridge Collection, Gift of Robert M. Light and Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
M26602
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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