- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- M24986
- People
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Jacob Matham, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1571 - 1631 Haarlem, Netherlands)
After Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch (Gorinchem, Netherlands c. 1566 - 1651 Utrecht, Netherlands)
- Title
- Adoration of the Shepherds
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1600
- Culture
- Dutch
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 22.5 x 28.7 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: JMatham sculp
- watermark: paper: eagle with three pendant balls
- inscription: design area, foreground, first step, printer's ink, engraved, Latin: attribution of agents in the print's production: Abrahamus Bloemaert. Inventor. / JMatham. sculp. Hh [Hendrik Hondius] excud.
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legend: lower margin, printer's ink, engraved, Latin: Latin verses in script calligraphy, bounded at left and right and separated in the center by the words in black-letter: Jacques / Rabet / Divulg
O ter etó quoties quis fando expresserit unquam / Virginii illius felicia munere partus, / Quoreparata salus redÿt mortalibus agris, / Et nova cum terris inierunt foedera coeli.
Tu nostri generis vindex, tu sanguinis autor / CHRISTE Deus, ter magne Puer, pia votatuorum / Suscripe, et e cunis placido specta ore clientes / Tuos[?] Parens virgo nostri nec desere curam. SS
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- ii/iii
- Standard Reference Number
- H. 34
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift in honor of Maida S. and George S. Abrams
- Accession Year
- 2001
- Object Number
- M24986
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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