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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.184
People
Unidentified Artist
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Manasseh, Amon, Josiah
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Kings of Judah
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1579
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342492

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: 21.5 x 28 cm (8 7/16 x 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 194
  • inscription: in plate, above figures, left, center, and right: MANASSE / AMON / IOSIAS
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, left, center, and right: Regnauit an:55. impius et infœlix coluit idola / cremauit filios in sacrificys Esaiam serra dissecuit / postea conuiersus est // Regnauit annos 2 rex impius fuit quare / gladio ministrorium suorum peryt // Deleuit Idola, restituit Veros dei cultus, ossa / falsorum doctorum exuri iussit regna: 31. an.
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, left, center, and right, brown ink: Manasses a agé de i2 ans regna 55 ans. Prince mechant / et malheureux, jdolatre fait errer Juda, brule ses enfans en / sacrifice, fit scier par le milieu le Profete Jsaje. Est miné / captif en Babylone puis se conuectit a Dieu qui le deliure. / Oste ljdolatrje et remet le seruice de Dieu. // AMON son folz a agé de 22 ans / regna 2. ans Jdolofre, occis in sa / maizon par ses seruiteurs. // JOSIAS son filz a agé de 8. ans regna 3İ ans. Prince droitturier / abbat l'jdolotrje fait restaurer le temple celebre la Pasque, ordonne / du seruice de Dieu. Allant en guerre contre le Roy dÆgipte [?]echau est / blessé á mort en Maggido et rapporté en Jerusalem meurt au grand regret / du peuple et de Jeremie qui en fait ses Lamentaōn. Chron. 2. 35.
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge of design area below central figure: 6

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) 213

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
2011.613.184
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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