G1669: Hendrik Goltzius

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G1669

People

Jan Harmensz. Muller, Dutch (Amsterdam 1571 - 1628 Amsterdam)
Previously attributed to Jacob Matham, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1571 - 1631 Haarlem, Netherlands)
After Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)

Title

Hendrik Goltzius

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1617-1620

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/278393

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, cut and laid down

Technique

Engraving

Inscriptions and Marks

• design: The print was cut to remove the inscriptions in the lower margin and the right-angled upper corners, leaving the head and bust with an arched background. It was laid down on on a large sheet of antique laid paper, no later than the 18th c., and decorated with framing lines in gray wash.
• collector's mark: verso of secondary support, blue stamp: D. U. [unidentified, probably German, found usually on Dutch 18th c. prints (Lugt 796)]
• inscription: verso of secondary support, graphite, in large flamboyant script: JB gi os
• collector's mark: verso of secondary support, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1669
• inscription: verso of secondary support, gray wash, perhaps the same wash that decorates the recto of the secondary support: N 380

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

ii or iii/iii

Standard Reference Number

New Hollstein (Goltzius) 752, Hollstein 380, Bartsch 172

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Object Number

G1669

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 65, repr. as fig. 3 on p. 12, fig. 21 on p.31 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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