Harvard Art Museums > G1657: The Annunciation Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Annunciation (Hendrick Goltzius) , G1657,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/274740. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number G1657 People Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands) Title The Annunciation Other Titles Series/Book Title: The Birth and Early Life of Christ Alternate Title: Annunciation (in Raphael's Style) Series/Book Title: "Meisterstiche" Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1594 Places Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands Culture Dutch Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/274740 Physical Descriptions Medium Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper Technique Engraving Dimensions plate: 47.6 × 35.4 cm (18 3/4 × 13 15/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: in plate, on reserve in lower left corner of design area: SERENISSIMO PRINCIPI, AC IL- / LVSTRISSIMO DNO, D. GVLIELMO. V. / COMITI PALAT. RHE. VTRIVSQ / BAVARIÆ DVCI. etc. / Vt medys Proteus se transformabat in vndis, / Formose cupido Pomone captus amore: / Sic varia PRINCEPS TIBI nunc se Goltzius arte / Commutat, sculptor mirabilis, atq repertor./ C. Schoneus inscription: in plate, bottom margin, to left and right: Pone metum virgo, celsi tibi nuncius adsum / Missus ab arce poli, paries intacta stupente // Natura, vt veterum cecinêre oracula Vatum, / Teq Dei matrem totus venerabitur orbis. inscription: in plate, bottom center of design area on a tablet: HG[monogram]. / Ao. 1594. collector's mark: bottom right corner of margin, blind stamp: G [Jan Baptist de Graaf (Lugt 1120)] collector's mark: verso, black stamp: Dr. / WA[linked] / Pr. [within a circular double borderline; Wilhelm August Ackermann (Lugt 791)] collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with black ink numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1657 inscription: verso, graphite: Imitation of Raphael. Provenance Recorded Ownership History Jan Baptiste de Graaf (1742-1804), Amsterdam (Lugt 1120). Dr. Wilhelm August Ackermann (1793-1865), Lubeck and Dresden (Lugt 791). Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857 State, Edition, Standard Reference Number State ii/vi Standard Reference Number New Hollstein 8, Bartsch 15, Filedt Kok 104.1, TIB0301.015 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray Object Number G1657 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Emma Chambers, An Indolent and Blundering Art?: The Etching Revival and the Redefinition of Etching in England, 1838-1892, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, England, 1999), repr. as fig. 1.3 on p. 27 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography] Exhibition History 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/24/2019 - 02/13/2020 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
