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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
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