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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R2021
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Allegory of Rome
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Roman Heroes
Alternate Title: Frontispiece: Protecting Divinity of Rome
Series/Book Title: Illustrious Romans
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1586
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/244241

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 37 × 23.6 cm (14 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Imperial Orb [?]
  • inscription: in plate, lower left corner of image area: HG[monogram]oltzius inuenit Sculpsit / et diuulgauit Ao. 1586. / Harlemi.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right: Ecce gemelliparæ sobolem inuictissime Cæsar / Ilice, et armisoni pignora sacra Dei: / Quæ Lupa natura pleno obluctante beauit / Vbere, et in siccam Tybris adegit humum; / Effet Dardanio proles vt ab igne superstes, / Auspice qua tollat Roma per astra caput. / Europæq, Afiæq cui gens cornua, et ipsa / Submittat fastus Aphica terra suos. // Cuius Maistas per auos, atanosq tuorum, /In te deluxit maxime Romulidûm, / Nec post translatos Roma vocare suum. / Ipsi etiam Heroës, quorum Romula creuit ope, / Se sudasse tibi tanta virtute fatentur, / Nuc saluere etiam, quo licet ore, inubent. / Franco / Estius / composuit
  • inscription: in plate, in central pedestal: MEMORABILIA ALIQVOT ROMANÆ / strenuitatis Exempla, / POTENTISSmo. DIVICTISSIMQ, ROMANORVM. / Imperatori Rudopho. IIo. / S. A. / SERENISSmo SVR / Cæsareæ Matis. / Humillimus, minimisq / clientubus / Henricus Goltzius / chancographus. D.D.
  • inscription: verso, graphite: No. 2169 / H / No 945[?]103 [all enclosed in an oval swirl]
  • watermark: World Orb [?]
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Randall Collection accession stamp (Lugt 2130)] 2021

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/v
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 163, Hollstein 161, Bartsch 94, Filedt Kok 26, The Illustrated Bartsch 0301.094

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R2021
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjolein Leesberg, The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: Hendrick Goltzius, ed. Huigen Leeflang, Sound & Vision Publishers and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, 2012), vol. 25, part 1, p. 273

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