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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R2025
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Mucius Scaevola
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Roman Heroes
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/244665

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 36.9 × 23.5 cm (14 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)
sheet: 37.3 × 23.8 cm (14 11/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: JWR[transcribed from original mount]: Plate 7 and 3rd. of the warriors.
  • inscription: lower left, in image: 3. HG fecit.
  • inscription: lower left, below image, in plate: Te, Porfenna tuo murone petitus, dauƒta / Te nautra ƒtupet, scævola magne, manu.
  • inscription: lower right, below image, in plate: At mens ƒublimis recolit dum ƒcmina cæli, / In fragili torpet corpore ƒenƒus hebes. F. E. ƒtius.
  • inscription: in plate, in ground area, lower left: 3. HG[monogram]. fecit
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right: Te, Prosenna tuo mucrone petitus, adusta / Te natura stupet, Scæuola magne, manu. // At mens sublimis recolit dum semina cœli, / In fragili torpet corpore sensu hebes. F.Estius.
  • inscription: verso, red chalk: 183
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 235 [illeg.] / [illeg.]+/bn / W. mr 1/n
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Randall Collection accession stamp (Lugt 2310)] 2029
  • (not assigned): Imperial Orb [?]

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 166, Hollstein 164, Bartsch 98, Filedt Kok 26.4, The Illustrated Bartsch 0301.098

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R2025
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. 275
  • Stephanie Schrader, ed., Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India, exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, 2018), pp. 63, 131, 137, repr. p. 131 as plate 62

Exhibition History

  • Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 03/13/2018 - 06/24/2018

Verification Level

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