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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1657
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
The Annunciation
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Birth and Early Life of Christ
Alternate Title: Annunciation (in Raphael'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/274740

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 47.6 × 35.4 cm (18 3/4 × 13 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, on reserve in lower left corner of design area: SERENISSIMO PRINCIPI, AC IL- / LVSTRISSIMO DNO, D. GVLIELMO. V. / COMITI PALAT. RHE. VTRIVSQ / BAVARIÆ DVCI. etc. / Vt medys Proteus se transformabat in vndis, / Formose cupido Pomone captus amore: / Sic varia PRINCEPS TIBI nunc se Goltzius arte / Commutat, sculptor mirabilis, atq repertor./ C. Schoneus
  • inscription: in plate, bottom margin, to left and right: Pone metum virgo, celsi tibi nuncius adsum / Missus ab arce poli, paries intacta stupente // Natura, vt veterum cecinêre oracula Vatum, / Teq Dei matrem totus venerabitur orbis.
  • inscription: in plate, bottom center of design area on a tablet: HG[monogram]. / Ao. 1594.
  • collector's mark: bottom right corner of margin, 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)] 1657
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Imitation of Raphael.

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
ii/vi
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 8, Bartsch 15, Filedt Kok 104.1, TIB0301.015

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1657
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Emma Chambers, An Indolent and Blundering Art?: The Etching Revival and the Redefinition of Etching in England, 1838-1892, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, England, 1999), repr. as fig. 1.3 on p. 27 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography]

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/24/2019 - 02/13/2020

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