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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.324
People
Adriaen Collaert, Flemish (c. 1560 - 1618)
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Angels Swinging Sickles and Pressing Wine; Angels Pouring Out the Seven Bowls of God's Wrath upon the Earth ; The Whore of Babylon ; The Fall of Babylon
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Revelation of Saint John
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
before 1585
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342632

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.)
upper left: 8.4 x 8 cm (3 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
upper right: 8.3 x 7.8 cm (3 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)
lower left: 8.2 x 7.6 cm (3 1/4 x 3 in.)
lower right: 8.4 x 8 cm (3 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 336
  • inscription: in plate, upper row left and right, lower row left and right, upper margin: 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
  • inscription: in plate, upper row left and right, lower row left and right, lower margin: Messis ne duita Veniet, qua denique Christus / Eyciet regno scandala cuncta suo / Puta cohors agmun sequitur, lethumque piorrū / Est felix segetem falx metit atque botros. / Cap. 14 // Cœlesti Septem venientes arta ministri / Septem pœnarum pocula plena gerut / Hæc simul offundunt his bestia tangitur ingens / Que turpes ranas ore patente vomit / Cap. 15.16 // Immani vehitur meretrix obscæna Dracone / Aurato calici mixta Venena ferens / Cuius iniminensum trepidandia potentia surgit / Hanc cupiunt Reges hanc cupiuntque Duces / Cap. 17 // Deuastata iacent Babylonis mœnia clamat / Angelus et meretrix pressa dolore perit / Mercantes lugent summi lugentq Monarchæ / Hæc propter fœdæ tristia fata lupæ / Cap. 18

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
ii/iv
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 377- 380

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
2011.613.324
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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