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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25125
People
Jacob Matham, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1571 - 1631 Haarlem, Netherlands)
After Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Pride
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Vices
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1587
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232713

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, hand-colored with transparent and opaque watercolor and shell gold (and silver?), with watercolor borderlines on the secondary page on which it is laid down
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 21.3 × 14 cm (8 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.)
secondary sheet: 36 × 25.1 cm (14 3/16 × 9 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge of design area, to left and to the right of center: 1 / HG[monogram]oltzius inue. et. ex.
  • legend: in plate, lower margin: Exerata Deis hominiq Superbia, nulli / Heu placeo, placeo dum nimis ipsa mihi.
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp and graphite: MC [linked] 96
  • collector's mark: verso of secondary support, blue stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt936)] M25125

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hill-Stone, Inc., sale to collector/donor, 1996.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (Goltzius) 484, Bartsch 271, Hollstein 284

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. Cohn in honor of Susan Dackerman
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
M25125
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Aparna Tandon, "Technical Examination of Two Dutch Sixteenth Century Hand-Colored Engravings" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, July 1997), Unpublished, pp. 1-13 passim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. 50 pp. 234-238, repr. p. 238, Appendix p. 277

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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