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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G9086
People
Master HSE, German (active 1570 - )
Title
Armorial Bearings Held by two putti (bookplate)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1571
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/185605

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on antique laid paper, hand-colored with watercolor and metallic gold and silver paint
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 13.3 x 10 cm (5 1/4 x 3 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: HSE
  • inscription: yes, cartouche at the foot of the shield, printer's ink, engraved, signed, in artist's hand: 1571 / FAZI HSE EBAT ("HSE made this in 1571") [monogram and date]
  • legend: oval band surrounding the armorial bearings, printer's ink, engraved, in artist's hand: [reading from lower left:] D [ornament] A B C [ornament] D E F [ornament] I S [letters of the alphabet, separated by bullets, the clusters separated by ornaments]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
N. 7

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
G9086
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Deborah Carton, "The Practice of Hand-Coloring Prints in the Early Years of Printmaking Revealed by the Technical Examination of Two Hand-Colored Prints from the Fogg Collection" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2001), Unpublished, passim
  • Susan Dackerman, Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 2002), cat. no. 32 pp. 173-175, repr. p. 174, Appendix p. 274

Exhibition History

  • Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/06/2002 - 01/05/2003; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 02/14/2003 - 05/18/2003
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/02/2023 - 06/21/2023

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