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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M13416
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
Title
Giovanni Diodati
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Pious Annotations upon the Holy Bible (by Giovanni Diodati, 1643)
Alternate Title: The Reverend John Diodati
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1643
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/256329

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink onwhite antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 19.2 × 11.5 cm (7 9/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
sheet: 21.1 × 14.1 cm (8 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: E De T. Bechtel [within a rectangular borderline (Lugt 4707)].
  • inscription: in plate, top margin: THE PORTRAICTVRE, OF THE REVEREND, Mr. / Iohn DIODATI, Minister of Gods Word in Geneva / Ætatis. 66. Anno 1643.
  • inscription: in plate, bottom margin: Reader looke well on DIODATI, more / Vppon the Golden worke he stands before, / Lest in the Sciptures Labyrinth thy minde / Should snare and lose it selfe, heer thou mayst finde / A Clue that will through each mysterious storie / Lead thee from earth vp to the throne of Glorie. / Wher thy well-guided soule shall once meet his / Whoe heer directs thee to eternall bliss.
  • inscription: in plate, lower left corner of image: W: Hollar fecit 1643.
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp: H [with a roman cross withing the upper half; Hugh Melville Howard (Lugt 1280b)]
  • watermark: Strasbourg bend
  • inscription: in plate, on book cover: La Sacra Bilbbia
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] 13,416
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: P 1388I / c 23206 / 1326 [in a circle] / e/o / P 1388I / 71

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 543, Pennington 1388

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin deT. Bechtel
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
M13416
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, website, Fondation Custodia, 2015, under L. 4707

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