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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1659
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Birth and Early Life of Christ
Alternate Title: Adoration of the Shepherds (in Bassano's Style)
Series/Book Title: "Meisterstiche"
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1594
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/274738

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 47.1 × 35.1 cm (18 9/16 × 13 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, bottom: Caelie opifex, rerum dominus, Diuûm atq hominum Rex / Nascitur en vilis tuguri sub panpere tecto, // Et præsepe tenet, quem non capit arduus æther,/ Non mare, non tellus, non vasti machina mundi. / F. Estius.
  • inscription: in plate, lower left corner of design area: HG[monogram]. / Ao. 1594.
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge of design area toward left: 3.
  • collector's mark: lower right corner, blind stamp: G [Jan Baptist de Graaf (Lugt 1120)
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: Dr. / WA[linked] / Pr. [within a circular double borderline (Wilhelm August Ackermann (Lugt 791)]
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with black ink numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (lugt 4836)] 1659
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Bassano
  • watermark: [illegible, in a circle]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jan Baptiste de Graaf (1742-1804), Amsterdam (Lugt 1120). Dr. Wilhelm August Ackermann (1793-1865), Lubeck and Dresden (Lugt 791). Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 10, Bartsch 17, Filedt Kok 104.3, TOB0301.017

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1659
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Exhibition History

  • Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/24/2019 - 02/13/2020

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