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Identification and Creation

Object Number
67.2003
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
The Expense of Litigation
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Huis en hof... Eccl.8:1; Pr.30:15; Is.9:20; Gal.5:15
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/167978

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 18.1 × 22.8 cm (7 1/8 × 9 in.)
sheet: 24.9 × 33 cm (9 13/16 × 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper margin, brown ink: Jo 102 e.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right, the first lines of left and right run together as the title: Huts en hof verslinc het Proces onuersadelÿck= / Non litigas cum homine potente, ne forte incidas in manus illius. Ecclesiasti. 8. / Sanguisugæ duæ sunt filiæ, dicentes, Affer Affer. Prouerbior. 30. / Vir fratri suo non parcet - vnusquisque carnem brachÿ sui vorabit. Esai. 9. / Quod si inucem mordetis et commeditis: videte ne ab inuicem cōsummamini. Gal. 5. // Met gesindes, tyds, en der zielen versuym scadelÿck / Stryt nit mit dem gewaltigē, das su im nit in seine hend fallist, / Die àglen hat zwo toechteren: (die eine heiszt) Traghaer (die ander Bringhar. / Es wirt ÿeder das flciseh seines arms essen. : eināder verzeert werdind. / So ir euch aber vnder eināder byssēd vnd fråssend, so sehend zů das ir nit vnder:
  • inscription: in plate, adjacent to figures: Lisites generans // Litigator // Negligentia / domus // Negligentia / temporis // Negligēna / anime // Anima / Litagato= / ris
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: .5.
  • watermark: Grapes?
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 67.2003
  • 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/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 190, The Illustrated Bartsch 160o

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Robert and Barbara Wheaton
Object Number
67.2003
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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