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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R5714
People
Hieronymus Wierix, Netherlandish (c. 1553 - 1619)
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Johann Sadeler I, Netherlandish (Brussels 1550 - 1600-8 Venice)
Title
Acension of Enoch
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Scenes from the Old Testament
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1583
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/250378

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 24.6 x 20 cm (9 11/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: engraved at the bottom edge of the image area, left and right: M de uos inueni / feron. W, fecit // Saderi excud. Antuerpiæ.
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Ascension of Enoch - / Jerome Wierix ,
  • inscription: engraved in the bottom margin of the plate: Henoch autem vixit seaxaginta quinque annis , et genuit Mathusalam. Et vixit Henoch postquam genuit / Mathusalam , trecentis annis, et genuit filias. Et facci sunt omnes dies Henoch trecenti sexagita / quinque anni. Amulauitqu cum Deo, non apparuit quia tulit eum Deus. GENES. V.
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 20934
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in brown ink:


















     


















    JOHN WITT RANDALL COLL. / HARVARD COLLEGE / no. 5714 [number on a
    dotted line] [Lugt 2130]











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

State
only state
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 29, Mauquoy-Hendrickx 62; Alvin 87

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R5714
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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