R6978: Giovanni de' Medici Defeated
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- R6978
- People
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Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
After Jan van der Straet, Netherlandish (Bruges, Belgium 1523 - 1605 Florence, Italy)
- Title
- Giovanni de' Medici Defeated
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: The History of Giovanni de' Medici
Alternate Title: Defeat of Troops Stationed to Surprise Giovanni de' Medici during the Battle of Parma - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1578
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/244557
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 21.9 × 29.4 cm (8 5/8 × 11 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin to left, center, and right: 2 // Johannes Medicies Parmensi bello cum nocturno tempore Vicum oppidum adoreri vellet magnum hostium / numerum se ex insidijs circumfluentem, reprimit, fugat, prosternit. // Johannes Stradanus inuent. / Phillippus Galle excude.
- inscription: lower right corner, brown ink: VI
- inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: Act / eAgs [underlined] / 285? / 1029
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with black ink numbering within: [Randall Collection accession stamp (Lugt 2130)] 6978
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- i/iii
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 348, Hollstein 329, Bartsch 285, The Illustrated Bartsch 0301.285
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
- Object Number
- R6978
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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