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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M9399
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Jan Nicquet
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1595
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/256716

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 15.2 × 10.9 cm (6 × 4 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, at right edge of design area: HG[monogram].
  • inscription: in palte, at upper edge of design area: ÆTAT SVÆ 56. Ao 1595.
  • inscription: in plate, in upper margin: NON . NEC . ISTA . QVESIVI . Ma. I. Niquet.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, to left and right: Tu mea non Vultum soboles, Vanamque figuram / Conspice, sed laudis facta Imitando dedy / NIQVESTVS, Justa Corpus Ratione guberno / Me sequere: Effigies Viua Parentis eris. // Gods Beelte. O Mensch. fÿt abÿ . Soomenin Baeschoot / Deugbt en Cerbaerb cÿt die hohen die Sonnblick et / Hissyn [...]bederschÿfel Dat[...]e om [...]boü[...]bt / Mÿn bredsaem, En endersÿn ban Niqüet
  • collector's mark: verso, aqua stamp: [apparently initials within a shield, but barely legible and not found in Lugt]
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp: E. L. [within a double lozenge-shaped borderline [Emanuel Levy (Lugt 876)]
  • collector's mark: vesro, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] 9399
  • inscription: verso, varoius graphite inscriptions: [illeg.] n 17II / B 17. / Noquet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Emanuel Levy, (2185). Mrs. William Simes, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1938

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 236, Hollstein 202, Bartsch 177, The Illustrated Bartsch 0301.177

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. William Simes
Accession Year
1938
Object Number
M9399
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjolein Leesberg, The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: Hendrick Goltzius, ed. Huigen Leeflang, Sound & Vision Publishers and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, 2012), vol. 25, part 2, p. 95

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