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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.327
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 Ambrose
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Saint Ambrosius
Series/Book Title: The Four Fathers of the Church
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edtion
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1585
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342635

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: 20.9 × 24.4 cm (8 1/4 × 9 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 339
  • inscription: in plate, on the two open books, left and right, and on the paper hanging off the table: Aduenio... / ex Sÿon et / le qui liberu... / et auertet in... / pietates ... / Iacob // Petite et da / bitur nobis / querite et / inueniens / pulsate et aperietur / vobis. Omnis / qui petit, ac= / cipis, et qui / querit, inue / nit, et pulsa= / ti aperiet. // Hec uīt / scripta, sūt / vt creda= / tis quia Iesus Chri / st, est ille
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge of design area, at left, to left of center, and at right: Mart. de Vos inuen. / Anto. Wierx sculp. / Gerard. de Iode excud.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: AMBROSIVS natione Romanus: Mediolanen. Episcopus. probo generosoq. Semi= / ne ortus. vir et ingenio et doctrina Hieronimo facile secundus. Ad iura ille / pst Auxencÿ obitum vocatus, iniudicem pauloq. post in Episcopū apud Mediolanē= / ses electus sacratusq. nomun. Gratiano Cæsari literis librisq. editis. sum ille de / fide satisfecisset: circumiacentibus ingenuiter veram fide communicauit. Erat enī // fidelium sectator insignis: diuinisq. in rebus acutus ingenio: vt nedum vi= / uente se: verum mortuo, multis regionibus Christum etiam scriptis declara= / rit. Hic adhuc cum cunis incubaret, apum examen eius faciem occultare / visum est: significationi: vt ex ore cius melleum vere documentum fluctu= / aret. vixit circa annum Dni. 380.
  • watermark: Gothic P?

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) 390; Hollstein (de Vos) 910

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
2011.613.327
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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