G1853: Judgement of Zaleucus
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G1853
- People
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Giulio Romano, Italian (Rome 1499? - 1546 Mantua)
- Title
- Judgement of Zaleucus
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Seleucus and his Sons
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1637
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/273838
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, soiled darkened to cream
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 28.2 × 37.5 cm (11 1/8 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, as if carved into the footrest of Zaleucus: Iulio Romano in, / WH[linked]ollar fecit, 1637
- inscription: in plate, lower margin left and right: Exoculandús erat, severa lege SELEVCI, / Qui commisisset, crimen adúlterij / Vnicus est Patri delatús filiús, húius / Qui plané argúitúr, criminis esse reúm. / İLLUSTRİSSİMO et EXCELLENTİSSİMO DOMİNO, DNŌ: / Súmmo Angliæ Marescallo, & Noblissimi Ordinis Garterij Equiti, & / Clementisimo, Hanc tabúlam a Iúlio Romano olim delineatam, núnc vero / inscúlptam, Wenceslaús Hollar, Bohem,: húmillime dedicat // Filius ambobús ne privaretúr ocellis, / En Pater indulgens, erúit ipse súúm / Iústutiæ exemplúm adsectús simul atqu paterni. / Quo pascas, oculos, quodqu imiteris habe, / Henr: Pechamus. / THOMÆ HOWARD, COMİTİ ARÚNDELLİÆ, ET SÚRRİÆ, &c. / Artis Picturæ amatori, collectori, ac promotori maximo. Dnō suo / in Ædibus Arúdelianis Londini conserúatam, et secundū originale hic / conseratq. Londini. Anno Domini, M.DC:XXXVII,
- inscription: lower right corner, graphite: P 527.
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1853
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 245, Pennington 527
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G1853
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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