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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.186
People
Unidentified Artist
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Zedekiah
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/342494

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 28.2 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 196
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge of design area, to right of center : 8
  • inscription: in plate, to right of upper center of design area: SEDECEAS
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin: Hic Vndecim annos regnauit Defect a rege Babyloniæ cui tributum pendere non Voluit / que de causa reuersus Nabuchodonosor obsedit Vrbem.
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Au lieu de Joachim ce Sedechias son frere a agé de .21. ans fut constitué Roy de Iudée et Jerusalem et y regna ii. ans. Se reuolta contre / Nabuchodonosor luy refuzant payer le tribut promis. Le peuple meprizant les admonitions de Ieremje est affligir et miné capif / en Babylone. Ierusalem et le Temple sont destruitz.

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) 215

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
2011.613.186
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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