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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R13560
People
Adriaen Collaert, Flemish (c. 1560 - 1618)
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Africa
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Four Continents
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c.1588-1589
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/239476

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 19.4 x 25.3 cm (7 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on plate, below image: l.l.: M. de Vos inven.
    l.r.: Adriaen Collaert sculps. et excud.
  • inscription: in plate, bottom: Tertia, terga premens crocodili, decolor aestu/ Perpete, hassameum dextra[m] tenet AFRICA ramum:/ Tertia; sed rerum praestans novitate stupenda[m]/ Primas pyramidem fert molibus aeternarum.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/iii
Standard Reference Number
Hollstein 471, New Hollstein VI.36.1316

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R13560
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints, W. E .B. Du Bois Institute, Rudenstine Gallery, Cambridge, 09/02/2010 - 12/03/2010
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018

Verification Level

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