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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.291
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Hans Bol
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1593
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370269

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 26.4 × 18.1 cm (10 3/8 × 7 1/8 in.)
sheet: 26.8 × 18.5 cm (10 9/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, around portrait: IOANNES BOLLIVS MECHLINIENSI PICTOR. ÆT. LVIIII. Ao. M.D.XCIII
  • inscription: in plate, below portrait: Caelatam Vitrici effigiem Francisce tuêre, / Virtutem spectato magis, vitamqué probatum, / Pictricem admirâre manum, qua florida Tempe, / Et nemus Alcinoi penicillo aequavit amenum. / Dedicat hanc grato tibi pectore Goltzius, at tu / Pignus amicitiae laeta cape mente, manuque
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: HG
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue stamp: S.S (Lugt 2367; mark of Samuel Solomonovitch Scheikevitch)
  • inscription: verso, lower right, brown ink: S. Scheikevitch Moscou / No 448 --
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: [erased text] 24419
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Lugt 2367 / He 45
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: Hirschmann / 177 [encircled] / 1ste staat / 1/2 / B. 161
  • collector's mark: verso, left edge, blue ink stamp: ES within two square borders (Lugt 4191, mark of Eugène Stuyck]
  • watermark: coat-of-arms over 4, center of sheet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Samuel Solomonovitch Scheikevitch, Moscow and Paris (Lugt 2367). Eugène Alfred Stuyck, Anvers (Lugt 4191). [R. E. Lewis, Inc. Original Prints and Drawings, Larkspur Landing, California], sold; to Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 1989, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
Hollstein 177; Bartsch 161; New Hollstein 209

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.291
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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