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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25940
People
Pieter de Jode, the Elder, Flemish (1570 - 1634)
Title
Hearing
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Five Senses
Original Language Title: Auditus
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/57148

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 19.2 cm (7 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, inside bottom edge of design frame, printer's ink, engraved: Pet. de Iode fecit . Vidua Ger. de Iode excud.
  • inscription: recto, below design frame, printer's ink, engraved, Latin: Auditus / Auditum recreat citharae pulsator Apollo, / Musarum in medio dum canit arte choro, / Vice salutari , et blandae modulamine linguae, / Mite fit ingenium, quod fuit ante ferum .
  • inscription: recto, extreme upper left corner, graphite, handwritten: 190.
  • watermark: right middle edge of design, paper, pressed paper: Gothic 'P' with horn countermark: most similar to Briquet, vol. III, no. 8888, ascribed to Koblenz, c. 1594

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Wurzbach, no. 17

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in honor of Mrs. Arthur K. Solomon
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
M25940
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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