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Identification and Creation

Object Number
65.2003
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Avarice Is the Root of All Evil
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Waenrceht hartneckich... Tim.6:10; James 4.1; Pr.15:18; Tim.6:9
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/167588

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 18.1 × 22.6 cm (7 1/8 × 8 7/8 in.)
sheet: 24.9 × 33 cm (9 13/16 × 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper margin, brown ink: Jo 100e.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right, the first lines of left and right run together as the title: Waenrce[sic]ht hareneckich, duister testament, myn en dyn= : 1.tim 6 / Radix enim Omnium malorum est cupiditas: quā quidā appetētes errauerūt a fide. / Vnde bella et lites in vobis: nōne hinc: ex cōcupiscētÿs vris. Jac. 4. / Vir iracundus prouocat rixas: qui patiens est mitigat suscitatas. Prouerb. 15. / Desideria multa, inutilia et nociua que mergūt homines in interitū et pditionē. 1. Tim. 6. // met begeerte blint, halen tProces, een drachts venyn. / Dan geyt ist ein wurtzel alles vbels: welcher hat etliche geluster vnd sind etcet. / Wohaer ist streit vnd krieg vnder euch: ist nit da haer ausz euweren wollusten, die etcet. / Der zormůtig richtet zanck an: der dultimůtig aber stillet den zanck vnd hader. / Vil torechte vnd scaedliehe lust, welthe versenckend die mēschē ins verderben.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: 3.
  • inscription: in plate, adjacent or within the figures, reading from left to right: Meum / Opinio / Tuam / Lis / Testamenta Cupido cecus
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 65.2003
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering within: MC [monogram; Marjorie Cohn] 02
  • watermark: Grapes?

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 188, The Illustrated Bartsch 160m

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Robert and Barbara Wheaton
Object Number
65.2003
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2024 - 05/05/2024

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