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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R1419
People
Claude Mellan, French (Abbeville 1598 - 1688 Paris)
Title
Frontispiece: The Sacred Pentecost Sermon
Other Titles
Original Language Title: De sacra pentecoste oratio, etc.
Alternate Title: Title page. "Lex amoris in monte Sion, Lex timoris in monte Sinai."
Former Title: Title page. "Pour un Nouveau Testament?"
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1634
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/240535

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscribed by John Witt Randall(?): [illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Préaud 372; de Montaiglon 315

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R1419
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Louise Rice, Prints for Pentecost: The Title Plates and Frontispieces to an Annual Sermon in Seicento Rome, L'Estampe au Grand Siècle: Études offertes à Maxime Préaud, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris, 2010), pp. 235-267, p. 252 [reference citation]

Verification Level

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