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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1853
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Giulio Romano, Italian (Rome 1499? - 1546 Mantua)
Title
Judgement of Zaleucus
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Seleucus and his Sons
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1637
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/273838

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, soiled darkened to cream
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 28.2 × 37.5 cm (11 1/8 × 14 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, as if carved into the footrest of Zaleucus: Iulio Romano in, / WH[linked]ollar fecit, 1637
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin left and right: Exoculandús erat, severa lege SELEVCI, / Qui commisisset, crimen adúlterij / Vnicus est Patri delatús filiús, húius / Qui plané argúitúr, criminis esse reúm. / İLLUSTRİSSİMO et EXCELLENTİSSİMO DOMİNO, DNŌ: / Súmmo Angliæ Marescallo, & Noblissimi Ordinis Garterij Equiti, & / Clementisimo, Hanc tabúlam a Iúlio Romano olim delineatam, núnc vero / inscúlptam, Wenceslaús Hollar, Bohem,: húmillime dedicat // Filius ambobús ne privaretúr ocellis, / En Pater indulgens, erúit ipse súúm / Iústutiæ exemplúm adsectús simul atqu paterni. / Quo pascas, oculos, quodqu imiteris habe, / Henr: Pechamus. / THOMÆ HOWARD, COMİTİ ARÚNDELLİÆ, ET SÚRRİÆ, &c. / Artis Picturæ amatori, collectori, ac promotori maximo. Dnō suo / in Ædibus Arúdelianis Londini conserúatam, et secundū originale hic / conseratq. Londini. Anno Domini, M.DC:XXXVII,
  • inscription: lower right corner, graphite: P 527.
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1853

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 245, Pennington 527

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1853
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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