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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.148
People
Unidentified Artist
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Job Sitting on the Dunghill
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Story of Job
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1579
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342456

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gold on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 27 x 36.4 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
plate: 21.2 x 26.3 cm (8 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 158
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin: A proprio dicit derisus coniuge Jobus, Si bona suscepi cur mala ferre negem. Iob. 2. cap.
  • inscription: inn plate, lower edge of design area, at left: .2.
  • inscription: in plate, upper right in aureole: [tetragram, Hebrew letters]
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: La femme de Iob le veult Induire à laisser Dieu. Sathan par la permession de Dieu le frappe en son corps dune roigne trés mauvaize. / depuis la plante des piedz jusquis au sommet de la teste. Job. 2.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Paul Prouté, Paris, France, sold]; to Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Concord, MA, later Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2011.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 170

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in memory of Robert Bradford Wheaton
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.613.148
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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