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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.151
People
Unidentified Artist
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
The First Vision: The Son of God Crowning the Multitude on Mount Sion
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Story of Esdras
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1582-85
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342459

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: 20 x 29.2 cm (7 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 161
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin: Turbam in monte deum laudantium cernit Esdras, coronisq in capite et palmis in manibus, decorari. 4 Esd. Cap. 2.
  • inscription: in plate, at lower edge of design area, at left edge and to left of center: G. de. Jode Excu / 1
  • inscription: in plate, on open book held by Esdras at left: M. d. Vos / inuentor
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Vision d'Esdras proféte. Ceste multitude louant le Seigneur en Cantiques en la montaigne de Sion sont ceux qui ont mis bas la robbe mortelle / et ont receu l'Immortelle, et ont confessé le nom de Seigneur. .Et maintent Ils sont couronnetz et recoiuent les palmes. Le Jouuenceau qui met les / couronnes sur ceux et les palmes en leurs mains, cest le fils de Dieu qu'Ily ont confessé en ce monde. Esdras 2. 45.

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) 173; New Hollstein (de Vos) 162.I

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
2011.613.151
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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