R5714: Acension of Enoch
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- R5714
- People
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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
- 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
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- 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
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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
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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
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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