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Identification and Creation

Object Number
66.2003
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Unequal Justice
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Hibehoeft drie sacken... Eccl.10:15; Pr.12:13, 20:3; Is.58:4
Series/Book Title: The Abuses of the Law
Series/Book Title: Litis Abvsvs
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1576
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/167567

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 18.1 × 22.8 cm (7 1/8 × 9 in.)
sheet: 25 × 33 cm (9 13/16 × 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper sheet margin, brown ink: Jo 101 e.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right, the first lines of left and right run together as the title: Hi behoeft drie sacken die met proces is gequelt= / Non contendas cum viro locuplete, ne forte contra te constituat litem tibi. Eccli. 8. / Iter imptorū ge eipiet eos. Prou. 12. Labor stulttorum afliget eos. Eccls. 10. / Honor est hōi qui separat sea cōtētionibus: ōes autem stulti miscētur cōtumelÿs. Pro. 20. / Ecce ad dites et conrentiones ieiunatis, et percuntis pugno impie. Esaias. 58. // Een vol onscamelheit, een vol geldult, een vol gelt. / Zanck nit mit einē reichē, das er nit wider dich einē schwaerē handel anrichte. / Den gottlosen verfurēd seine waeg. Pro. 12. Das bemuyet vnd bekumberet die thooren etcet. / Der mēsch der sich vor zāck und hader hůtet wirt eerlich: ein ÿeder aber der sich etcet / Sich ir fastend zů zanckē und haderē, vnd das ir zugesprochnen mit der etcet
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: .4.
  • inscription: in plate, adjacent or within four foregroubnd figures, reading from left to right: Litigator / Impudentia / Patiētia / Pecunia
  • watermark: Grapes?
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 66.2003
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering within: MC [monogram; Marjorie Cohn] 02

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Library of Rouche-Guyon. Album of multiple sets auctioned off, c. 2002, at Hotel Drouot, purchased by Proute

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/iii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 189, The Illustrated Bartsch160n

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Robert and Barbara Wheaton
Object Number
66.2003
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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