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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.206
People
Unidentified Artist
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
The Annunciation
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Story of the Youth of Christ
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1574
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342514

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: 19.6 x 25.3 cm (7 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 216
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin: Gabriel spōsāq dei matrēq futurū o maria, inlæsá Virginitate, canit: Felix diuinis quæ gredere vocibus ausa es felix ēxcēpto quasquis et inde tuo -
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge of design area, at left and to left of center: fol. 9 / 1
  • inscription: in plate, upper edge, center: [tetragram]
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: L'ange Gabriel fut enuoyé de dieu en la ville de Nazareth à vne Virge nommée Marie. et quand l'ange fut inné vers elle, il dit. Je te salüt / Marie pleine de grace, le Seigneur est aueq toy, tu es beneite entre les femmes. Or Marie fut troublée de tele propos; parquoy l'ange luy dit / Marie ne crain point. Voicy tu conceuras en ton ventie et en santeras vn filz et apelleras son nom Jesus. Marie dit a l'ange comment se / fera cecy puisque je ne connois point d'homme; l'ange respond, le Sct. Esprit suruiendra en toy et la virtu du Souuerain t'obombrera. alors Marie / respond Voila la Servante du Seigneur me soit fait selon ta parole. Luc .1.

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
iii/v
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 240; Hollstein 268

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
2011.613.206
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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