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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M9850
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Cliff on a Seashore
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Four Small Landscapes
Alternate Title: Water, or The Age of Iron
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1597-c. 1600
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/256918

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks in black, greenish tan, and darker green inks on white antique laid paper
Technique
Chiaroscuro woodcut
Dimensions
block: 11.4 × 14.4 cm (4 1/2 × 5 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in black block, on stone in foreground: HG [monogram]
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: 76
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: B.III. p 75. / Golts[?] no. 245. / _ / I[underlined] 1 s[in a circle]S / NO [see collector' marks]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering to left: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 836)] 9850
  • collector's mark: verso, graphite: s[within a circular borderline] S [Horace M. Swope (Lugt 2368a); see inscriptions for additional letters, which Lugt suggests are price indications]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Horace M. Swope, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 310, Hollstein 381, Bartsch 245, Bialler 52 II

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Horace M. Swope, Class of 1905
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
M9850
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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