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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R3980
People
Lukas Kilian, German (1579 - 1637)
After Joseph Heintz the Elder (1564 - 1609)
Title
Rape of Proserpina
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/241890

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
43 × 61.5 cm (16 15/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, bottom: Dum violas auido carpit feruore legendi./ Candida purpureis lilia cumq[ue] rosis:/ Visa simul est dilactaq[ue] raptaq[ue] Diti/ Vnica frugifera nataq[ue] spesq[ue] Deae./ Arridet Cijtheraea dolis; furit inscia Pallas/ Delia tela parat; Naiades aufugiunt./ Rapta flet et queritur. maestam placante marito./ Inuictus nulli cedere nouit Amor./

    INCLYTO ET ILLVSTRISS.O PRINCIPI; DN. FRIDERICO WIRTEMBERG. ET TECC. DVCI: MOMPELGARD. COM. HAIDENHAIM. DNO; REGG. ORDD. FRANCIAE ET ANGLIAE EQVITI: PRINC. ET DN. SVO CLEMENTISS.O RAPTVM HOC PROSERPINAE; SVBMISS. ET DEVOTISS.ae IN EIVS CELS.em./ OBSERV.ae ARGVMENT.HVMILL:DDt.DOMINICVS CVSTOS.CAELAT.ET BIBLIOPOLA AVG.VINDEL.A.V.P. clclccV.

    Pro Sacra Caes. Maiest. pinxit. Iosephus Heintz C.A. Lucas Kilianus August: aere incidit.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Hollstein 531

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R3980
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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