Harvard Art Museums > 68.2003: The Sleepless Night of the Litigant Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Sleepless Night of the Litigant (Hendrick Goltzius) , 68.2003,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 03, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/167568. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 68.2003 People Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands) Title The Sleepless Night of the Litigant Other Titles Original Language Title: Onrust des herten...Eccl.2:26; Pr.4:16; Eccl.8:16. 2:23 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/167568 Physical Descriptions Medium Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream Technique Engraving Dimensions plate: 18.2 × 22.9 cm (7 3/16 × 9 in.) sheet: 25 × 33 cm (9 13/16 × 13 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: upper margin, brown ink: Jo 103 e. inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right, the first lines of left and right run together as the title: Onrust des herten craeyt wacker den pleyter verstÿft= / Peccatori autem dedit afflictionem et curam superfluam. Ecclesiastes. 2. / Non rapitur sonmus[sic] ab eis nisi supplantauerīt. Prouerb. 4. / Est homo qui diebus ac noctibus somnum non capit oculis Ecclesistes. 8. / Cuncit dies eius doloribus et ærūnis pleni fūt, nec p noccē mēte requiescit: Eccls. 2. // Door ancxtige sorge, die den zoeten slaep verdrÿst, / Dem sunder aber gibt er müy vnd kumber. / Kein slaaf ficht sy an, sy habind dann vor einem vnfal angerichtet. / Es ist ein mensch der weder tag noch nacht seinē augen keinen schlaaff günner / Das alle seine tag mit trauerkeit, mis leid vnd iamer vertreibt, das auch sein hertz bei nacht kein ru hat. inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: .6. inscription: in plate, adjacent to the figures, reading from left to right: Litigator // Inquietatio / cordis // Anxia / Cura // Somnus / dulcis watermark: Grapes? inscription: verso, graphite: 68.2003 collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering within: MC [moongram; 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/ii Standard Reference Number New Hollstein 191, The Illustrated Bartsch160p Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Robert and Barbara Wheaton Object Number 68.2003 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Related Works 63.-70.2003 Hendrick Goltzius Litis Abvsvs, or, The Abuses of the Law Prints Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
