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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.311
People
Unidentified Artist
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Healing of a Fortune Teller by Paul and Silas; Paul and Barnabas at Lystra
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Healing of a Fortune Teller by Paul and Silas; Saint Paul and Barnabas at Lystra
Series/Book Title: Acts of the Apostles
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1591-1600
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342619

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.)
left: 18.8 x 12.8 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/16 in.)
right: 19.2 x 13 cm (7 9/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 323
  • inscription: in plate, left and right, lower left corner of design area: M. de Vos inuent. / M. de Vos inuent.
  • inscription: in plat, left and right, lower margin: Eycitur Python, Paulj virtute Silæque, / Carcere seruantur coesus vterq flagris. // Cum Paulo & comiti Lystrenses sacrificarent / Iratus vestum scindit uterq suam.
  • inscription: left and right, lower margin of plate, at right, brown ink: acto. 16. / act. 14.
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, left and right, brown ink: Paul deliure vne jeune fille d'vn esprit pythonique qui la possedoit / Il est mis en prison auec Silas ayant esté premierement fouettex. // Les habitans de la ville de Lystre veulent sacrifier des taureaux a Paul / et a Barnabas, appellans Barnabas Jupiter et Paul Mercure; dequoy estans / Indignez ilz deshirent leurs vestemenz.

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) 505, 506; Hollstein 903; Hollstein 902.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
2011.613.311
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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