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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.326
People
Anton Wierix II, Flemish (c. 1555/1559 - 1604)
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Saint Jerome
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Saint Hieronymus
Series/Book Title: The Four Fathers of the Church
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1585
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342634

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 × 36.4 cm (10 5/8 × 14 5/16 in.)
plate: 21.5 × 24.8 cm (8 7/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 338
  • inscription: in plate, on the page on which Jerome writes, on the page to which Jerome looks, on the document on the table: Paulus ser: / inis // [illeg.] ius ad iu = [?]uorari / ergo nouis = / sima tua. // COGITA / MORI.
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge of design area, centered: Marti. de Vos inuen. Anto. Wierix sculpsis Gerard. de Iode excud.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: HIERONYMVS celeberrimus & magnus ille Ro. Ecclesiæ Doctor, Presbÿ= / ter, prognatus ex ciuitare Stridone, quæ postea a Gottis deuastata Dalma= / tiæ Pannoniæq vicina fuit. Erat vir hic tunc temporis totius orbis doc= / trina sanctitateq facile primus: colebat Bethleheem regionis Palestinæ ci= / uitatem, ille quam docendo ecclesiæ profuerit paucis scriptu non est fa= /cile. Nam vitam eius sanctissimā omnib. puto esse notā nomēq eiusdem // non periturū: is cum venisser Romanus, in Cardi. consecratus est. Post au= / tem hæc, in Sÿriæ deserto decreuit agere penitentiam, redÿtq annos ost / 4 Bethleheem: ibidem tunc moratus, inumerabiles sacræ legis descripsit / contra incredulorum virus insitum fere libros: tales vr nullis siuceritate / cadant. Multa quidem de viro dicenda sunt, sed non facile ponenda, propter / spatÿ breuitatem, vixit circa an. Dm. 376.
  • inscription: lower right sheet corner, graphite: vo 909

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

Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 389; Hollstein (de Vos) 909

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
2011.613.326
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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