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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.284
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Raising of the Daughter of Jairus
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299249

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash over red chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared in red chalk, framing line in black ink and red chalk, mounted at all corners
Dimensions
13.4 x 18 cm (5 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
mount: 25.2 x 31.2 cm (9 15/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, purple ink stamp and black ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 547. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)
  • inscription: mount, lower center, graphite: Daughter of Jairus [underlined] / India ink drawing / Van Orley / See also the engraving of this subject by Richard van Orley / bought by J. Warren in Lond / from an Amsterdam collection / see Gr Pensionary col.
  • inscription: mat, lower center, graphite: 17. cent. (?)
  • inscription: mat, lower right, graphite: 547. / 550.[crossed out]
  • inscription: mount, lower left, graphite: 550 [encircled]
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: no 500
  • inscription: mount, beneath drawing, lower right, brown ink: Orley
  • inscription: mount, lower left, graphite: 550 [encircled]
  • inscription: mount, lower center, graphite: [lower center] daughter of Jairus [underlined] / See also the Engraving of this subject / by Richard van Orley [lower right] India Ink drawing / van Orley [underlined] / Bought by J Warren in Lond / from an Amsterdam Collection / see Gr Pensionary Col / no. 500
  • inscription: mat, lower center, graphite: 17. cent. (?)
  • inscription: mat, lower right, graphite: 547. / 550. [crossed out]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grand Pensionary, Leiden(?). Private collection, Amsterdam, sold; to J. Warren, London. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.284
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William W. Robinson, "John Witt Randall: An Early American Collector of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, Summer, pp. 159-168, note 32, p. 168

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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