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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R2015
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
The Visitation
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Birth and Early Life of Christ
Alternate Title: Visitation (in Parmagianino's Style)
Series/Book Title: "Meisterstiche"
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1593
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/244453

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, damaged, darkened to tan, and laid down
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 47.7 × 35.5 cm (18 3/4 × 14 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: transcribed from original mount, in Randall's hand: The Visitation in imitation of Parmagianino. / Designed and engraved by Henry Goltzius 1593. / One of the so-called 7 Masterpieces.
  • inscription: in plate, bottom margin, to left and right: Plena Deo virgo, cœlesti Pnenmate fœta, / [Co]gnatum Helisaben montana per aspera visit; // Exultat sterilis fœcunda, exultat et infans / Iam tunc in gravidæ genitricis ventre Prophetes. / F. Es[tius]
  • inscription: in plate, lower left foreground of design area: 2
  • inscription: lower edge of design area, toward right: 1593. / HG [monogram]
  • collector's mark: verso of secondary support, blue stamp with graphite numbering below: [Randall Collection accession stamp (Lugt 2310) 2015

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

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 9, Bartsch 16, Filedt Kok 104.2, TIB0301.016

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R2015
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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