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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1878
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Italian (Pieve di Cadore, Italy c. 1488 - 1576 Venice, Italy)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Italian Portraits
Alternate Title: Gio. della Casa
Alternate Title: Bindo Altoviti
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1649
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/273986

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 25.4 × 18.8 cm (10 × 7 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, upper left corner: Titianus pinxit, / W: Hollar fecit, 1649,
  • inscription: in plate, bottom of image area: M. D. XX İİİ
  • watermark: top of sheet: crowned armorial with an animal on a bend, pendant WR
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: RİTRATTO DE BİNDO ALTOVİTİİ.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: Ex Collectione Iohannis et Iacobi van Verrle, / F: van den Wÿngarde excudit,
  • inscription: lower margin, graphite: P 1339. 1st State
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1878
  • collector's mark: verso, brown ink: D[flamboyant script] / l. or. 173 -- [livres d'or; see Lugt 3173]
  • inscription: verso, lower left and lower rights corners, brown ink: L.a / 12 [the 12 is overwritten by a C in black ink]
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 8/173 / y 5 [the y overwitten and the superscript 5 underlined with graphite squiggles]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 1042, Pennington 1339

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1878
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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