Harvard Art Museums > M13442: Adam Elsheimer Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Adam Elsheimer (Wenceslaus Hollar)(After Johannes Meyssens) , M13442,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/255858. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number M13442 People Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London) After Johannes Meyssens, Flemish (1612-1670) Title Adam Elsheimer Other Titles Series/Book Title: Image de divers hommes desprit sublime (1649) Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1649 Culture British Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/255858 Physical Descriptions Medium Etching printed in black ink onwhite antique laid paper Technique Etching Dimensions plate: 16 × 10.9 cm (6 5/16 × 4 5/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks collector's mark: verso, black stamp: E De T. Bechtel [within a rectangular borderline (Lugt 4707)] inscription: in plate, lower margin: ADAM ELSHEİMER / Natif de Francfort en l'an 1574, fis d'un Tayleur, faisoit son apren= / =tisage a Venice, ches Iohannes Rottenhamer, gran deseignateur, et tres bon / painctre, neau moins Surpassoit son maistre de beaucoup, estoit d'un Hu= / =meur melancolique, se treuent ordinairement dans les Eglises ou en quel= / =que Viele Ruine, ecxersent de la façon, son estude, on troue peu de ses/ euures mais ecxtremement labouréès, auecque une grande fortse, et d'un divin / entendement. Il a peu dessaingue, mais tenant du gran maistre, Touchant sa vie / at este, de peu de durée, mourut poure, laissont per le monde vne Renomée qui durera / a jamais: I. Meyssens pinxit et excudit. collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] 13,442 inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 3 [surrounded by a half-circle] / P. 1397I / C.3839 / 1394 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Edwin De Turck Bechtel (Lugt 4707), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957 State, Edition, Standard Reference Number State i/vi Standard Reference Number New Hollstein 1056, Pennington 1397 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin deT. Bechtel Accession Year 1957 Object Number M13442 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, website, Fondation Custodia, 2015, under L. 4707 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
