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Identification and Creation

Object Number
69.2003
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Imperiled Litigation
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Goede saec moet... Pr.18.5; Ps.13:1; Pr.10:26, 25:18
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/167569

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 18.4 × 22.6 cm (7 1/4 × 8 7/8 in.)
sheet: 24.9 × 32.9 cm (9 13/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper margin, brown ink: Jo 104 e.
  • inscription: in plate, identifications of each of the figures, from left to right and near to far: Testes veraces / Procuratores fideles / Aduocati periti / Judices Justi / Bona Causa / Victoria / Judices Injusti / Aduocati iperiti / Pocuratores negligentes / Testes falsi
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right, the first lines of left and right run together as the title: Goede saec moet dic na zeech door den spietsen danssen: / Accipere personam impÿ in iudicio, non est bonum, vt declines a veritate iudicÿ. Pro. 18. / Consilia impiorum fradulenta. Pro. 12. Consilium inopis conjudistis. Psalm, 13. / Sicut acetum dentibus, et fumus, oculis, sic piger his qui meserūt eum. Prouerb. 10. / Jaculū, et gladius, et sagitta acuta, homo qui loquitur cōtra proximū suū falsū testimon. pro. 25. // Voor goey rechters ist goet, anders, ist mommescanssen. / Vast bólz ists so mā am gericht dē vnschuldigē usz āschē des gotlosen verurteilt. / Die natsleg der gotlosen sind falsch. - Ir habend den raat des armen verspottet. / Wie der essig dē zanē ist, vnd der rauch dē augē, also ist der faul denē die in auszendend. / Der wider seinē náchstē falsche zeugnusz gibt, ist wie ein bickel, ein schwárt und scarpffe pseyl.
  • watermark: Grapes?
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering within: MC [monogram; Marjorie B. 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 192, The Illustrated Bartsch 160q

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Robert and Barbara Wheaton
Object Number
69.2003
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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