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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26623
People
Andries Jacobsz Stock, Dutch (Antwerp c. 1580 - after 1648 The Hague)
Designed by Jacques de Gheyn II, Dutch (Antwerp, Netherlands 1565 - 1629 The Hague, Netherlands)
Published by Nicolaes de Clerck (c. 1599 - 1623)
Title
The Fortune-Teller
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1608
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/31588

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, discolored to beige
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 30.5 × 20.4 cm (12 × 8 1/16 in.)
album page mount: 45 × 34 cm (17 11/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: IDG in. N. de Clerk ex.
  • inscription: engraved at the bottom right of the image: IDG[interlaced]. in. N . de Clerk ex.
  • inscription: engraved in the plate's lower margin tre: Cui media turgot vena, dum medicum quærit / Qui rito tundat, & diu nimium sperat; / Adÿt vagantem torida cutis Nubam : / Futura deccit qua placent , et soc tantum . / E dou misella , sicne emis , palam false / Futura credi ? Quin pete auxilium præsens.
  • inscription: Type printed on black at the lowest (partially cut off) edge of the sheet: [flourish] Ale ghy nieus-ghierighe sottinnen, end' ghn slechte mallooten
  • inscription: lower right corner of mounting sheet, brown ink: 172
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: 183.
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 2299,208 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/iii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 154 [de Gheyn family] H. VII (as de Gheyn), 105

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
M26623
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The engraving is mounted in a sheet torn from an album. In the lower right corner, the page number "172" is inscribed in brown ink.

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. 56 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
  • I. Schrier, "Nicolaes de Clerck, Boeckvercooper ende constdrucker: Boek en prent bij de Delftse uitgever Nicolaes de Clerck (ca. 1599-1623), Ph.D. diss. University of Amsterdam" (2019), p. 327, repr.

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