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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.208
People
Jacques de Gheyn II, Dutch (Antwerp, Netherlands 1565 - 1629 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Portrait of Carolus Clusius
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Rariorum Plantarum Historia (Antwerp, 1601)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1601
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/322657

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
platemark: 22.2 x 18.5 cm (8 3/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
sheet: 26.1 x 20.7 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
frame: 49.8 x 39.7 cm (19 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, dark brown stamp: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606)
  • collector's mark: verso, dark brown stamp: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Berlin [duplicate stamp (Lugt 2398)]
  • watermark: eagle with spread wings; details illegible
  • inscription: engraved within oval border of portrait bust: CAROLI CLVSII ATREBATIS LXXV . AETATIS ANNVM AGENTIS EFFIGIES: A NATO CHRITO MDC,


  • inscription: Engraved in a cartouche below the portrait: VITVTE ET GENIO non nitimur: at mage CHRISTO / Qui nobis istæc donat. et ingenium .
  • inscription: engraved in lower border of the cartouche: IDG[linked]heijn fecit

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 241 (De Gheyn pt. II, family prints)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.208
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2011), cat. 42 p.200-201, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/06/2011 - 12/10/2011; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, 01/17/2012 - 04/08/2012

Verification Level

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