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Identification and Creation

Object Number
70.2003
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Death of the Foolish Litigant
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Abuses of the Law
Series/Book Title: Litis Abvsvs
Original Language Title: Wat wint donwÿse pleuer... Pr.11:7; Is.66:24; Eccl.13:1; Matt.5:25
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1576
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/167979

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 18.2 × 22.1 cm (7 3/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
sheet: 24.8 × 32.7 cm (9 3/4 × 12 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper margin, brown ink: Jo 105 e.
  • inscription: in plate, adjacent to the three major figures, left, center, and right: Litigator / Confāctia mala / Paupertes
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, center: 8
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right, the first lines of left and right run together as the title: Wat wint donwÿse pleuer met syn moetlick drauen. / Mortuo hōie impio nulla erit vltra spes, et solicitorum expectatio peribit. Pro. 11. / Vermis eorū nō extīguetur: et erūt vsq ad satietatē. Esa. 66 / Alÿ rapiunt non sua et semper in egestate sunt. Prouerbi. 11. studici. Mat. 5. / Esto cōsentiens aduersario tuo cito dum es in via cū eo, ne sorte tradatte aduersarius, // Dat hem quaey conscientié en armoey begrauen. / So der gotlos stirbt, so ist seī hofnūg vss: dā das hoffen der frásler isēt verderbunss. / Frewurm werdēd nit sterbē, noch ir theur erloscen, Esai. 66. / Bosz ist die armůt in dem mund der gottlosen. Ecclesiati. 13. / Bisz wilfertig deinē widersacher bald, dieweil du och mit im auf dem wág bist.
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering within: MC [monogram; Marjorie B. Cohn] 02
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 70.2003
  • 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/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 193, The Illustrated Bartsch 160r

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Robert and Barbara Wheaton
Object Number
70.2003
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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