- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- M13442
- People
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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
- Date
- 1649
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/255858
- Physical Descriptions
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- 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
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- 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
- Edwin De Turck Bechtel (Lugt 4707), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- i/vi
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 1056, Pennington 1397
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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- Publication History
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Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, website, Fondation Custodia, 2015, under L. 4707
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