G1896: Joannes de Reede

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G1896

People

Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
Published by Johannes Meyssens, Flemish (1612-1670)

Title

Joannes de Reede

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1650

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/274203

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 16.2 × 10.9 cm (6 3/8 × 4 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: in plate, lower margin: IOANNES DE REEDE, D: DE RENSVOVDE İN CONs. / =SESSV CELS: ET PRÆPOT: D:D: ORD: GEN: VNİT: PROV: / NOM: EORVM, AD CAR: MAG: BRİT: REGEM AD SEDANDA / İNTESTİ: DİSSİDİA, LEGATVS EXTRA: ET AB EODEM İN BA= / =RONEM DE REEDE CREATVS, Ætatis .52, 1645. / W: Hollar fecit, 31. Decemb: 1650, / Ioannes Meyssens excudit.
• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collections accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1896
• inscription: verso of secondary support, graphite: Clap VIII / p 66
• inscription: lower right corner, graphite: P.1487.

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 1120, Pennington 1487

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

Object Number

G1896

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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