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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.198
People
Unidentified Artist
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Amos, Zacheriah, Malachi
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Prophets of the Old Testament
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1579
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342506

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: 21.3 x 27.4 cm (8 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: right margin, graphite: 208
  • inscription: in plate, in sky near figures' heads: AMOS. / ZACHARIAS. / MALACHIAS.
  • inscription: in plate, left, center, and right: EX OVİVM FVERAM FACTVS / CVSTODE PROPHETA, / DVRAQ PRO CHRİSTİ NO / MİNE VERBA TVLI // ÆDİFİCATVRİS TEM= / PLVM SOLATİA DİXİ / LAVDATORQ OPERİS / MAXİMVS İPSE FVI // ANGELİCAM DVXİ SEMPER / SİNE CRİMİNE VİTAM / ANİGELVS HİNC LATERİ / İVNGİTVR VSQUE MEO
  • inscription: upper sheet margin, left extending into left margin and right extending into right margin: AMOS berger natif de Thecué en la terre de Zabulon á 3 lieues / de Betehem. commencá á profetizer vn peu deuant Esaye, et ce au pais de / Samarje. Persecuté par le Roy Amasias et en fin meurtez pas le Roy Osias son filz. / exsorte á conuer- / -sion et repentant / et confirme l'esprān / du Mossie // Zacharie natif de Barachie profetiza de mesme tems que Aggié, cettecy Insistance / á la restauration du Temple, et Zacharje de la cité d'jerusalem figure dEglize de JesusC. / qui est la cité permanente sainte et paizable, assise sur la terre ferme. Predu la venue / de jesus C le mystere / de son regne. / La venuë de L'anti= / christ, ennemis du / L'Eglize, Mouru / in Judé et fut / enterré auprés duz / Aggie.
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: MALACHİE fut de la lignée de Zabulon par le ouuertemt de la rejection des Juifs et vocation des gentilz. Dez son Jeune a age fut de sainte vye et plein / de douceur et pour ce nommé du peuple, Malachie c. Ange. Mourut fort jeune. Il fut le dernier proféte des Juifs. Le but de sa profetje est la restauraons du / l'office sacerdotal en la personne de Jesus C. duquel Il annonce l'aduenemt en Son Eglize Joye et felicité de son regne qui sera signifié par son Herault et precurseur qui / viendra en la vectu et esprit d'Elie.

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) 230

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
2011.613.198
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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