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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1668
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1591-1592
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/274889

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on off white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 54.9 × 44.5 cm (21 5/8 × 17 1/2 in.)
image: 51.5 × 41.3 cm (20 1/4 × 16 1/4 in.)
border plate: 53.7 × 43.8 cm (21 1/8 × 17 1/4 in.)
inner plate (oval): 42.7 × 32.3 cm (16 13/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, in cartouche, top: Weet, of rust.
  • inscription: in plate, inscription on oval frame: THEODORVS CORNHERTIVS, AD VIVVM DEPICTVS ET ÆRI INCISVS AB H. GOLTZIO. / NATVS AMSTELREDAMI Ao CIƆ IƆ XXII./ DENATVS GOVDÆ Ao CIƆ IƆ XC.
  • inscription: in plate, cartouche, bottom: Qui Veri Studio, qui Libertatis amore / Pontifices nequijt ferre, Lemane, tuos; / Vivida sic Batavus Cornhertius ora ferebat: / Ora sed in scriptis vividiora sonant.
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (lugt 4836)] 1668
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: No 30 / 3/C / I[?]. 36
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: D A G[?] 1717 / 42/

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/iii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 211, Hollstein 180, Bartsch 164, Filedt Kok 89, TIB0301.164

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1668
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joseph Koerner and Michael Zell, Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist (unnumbered)
  • Emily J. Peters, ed., The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650, exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI, 2009), cat. no. 49, repr. as pl. 27 on p. 79 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Exhibition History

  • Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/30/1999 - 01/23/2000
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/26/2018 - 10/31/2018

Subjects and Contexts

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