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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R2022
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Allegory of Fame and History
Other Titles
Title: The Roman Heroes
Alternate Title: Frontispiece: Fame and History
Series/Book Title: Illustrious Romans
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1586
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/244553

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 37.2 × 23.4 cm (14 5/8 × 9 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: World Orb [?]
  • inscription: in plate, in ground area, lower center: HG[monogram]oltzius fecit.
  • inscription: in plate, just above image lower borderline, centered: Ao. 1586
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right: Vita hominum breuis est, bullæ instar aquatilis exit, / Gloriaq illius ceu leuis vmbra fugit. / Inclyta quin virtus, et fortia facta prioum / Mersa chao æterno, sub tenebrisq forent: / Scævola tu, Curtiq, et Cocles, et alter Horati, / Effetis cineres, fumus, et aura, nihil. Viuida Posteritas, et facti postera Fama / Ni ferat in lucem, et nocte latere vetet. // Te quoq, virtutemq tuam, nomenq tuorum / Et decus, ô Cæsar, Teutonicosq Duces, / Enthea Posteritas, et præpete Fama volatu, / Per terras omnes, æquora, et astra vehent, / Imperium iam tot quorum virtute per annos / Nullm æui cariem sentit, et vsq viget: / Et stirps Troiugenûm Germanos nacta nepotes / Inuicta priscos Marte tuetur auos. / F. Estius com: / posuit.
  • inscription: in plate, on the fore edge of the open book: HISTORIA
  • inscription: in plate, on the pedestal: Omnia morte cadunt; nescit mortq inexhausta vnica Virtus, / Solaq inexhausta Posteritate viget. / AKHPATOƩ H AAKH
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering below: [Randall Collection accession stamp (Lugt 2130)] 2022

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

Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 172, Hollstein 170, Bartsch 95, Filedt Kok 26.10, The Illustrated Bartsch0301.95

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R2022
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. 279

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