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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.46
People
Jacques de Gheyn II, Dutch (Antwerp, Netherlands 1565 - 1629 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Great Lion
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1590
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/330590

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 25 × 33 cm (9 13/16 × 13 in.)
frame: 39.7 × 49.8 cm (15 5/8 × 19 5/8 in.)
oval image within inscribed border: 24.6 × 32 cm (9 11/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: engraved at lower left corner: IDG[interlaced]heyn. fe.
  • inscription: engraved in lower right corner: IB[interlaced]osscher. excu.
  • inscription: engraved within border of the image: * EN LEO MAGNANIMUS, VIGILANTI MENTE RECVMBENS: * VERBERET VY CAVDAM, TOLLAT VT IPSE IVBAS. * NEC FVGIENS, NEC QUEM METVENS: SEC PROMPTVS ET ACER * AD PROSTERNEDUM, SE DOCET ESSE FERAM. HiR [monogram] .
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp: multi-armed cross with initials ABV below [Albert van Loock (Lugt 3751)]
  • collector's mark: verso, to left of mark of Albert lav Looke, purple stamp: three links in a chain?
  • collector's mark: verso, faint purple stamp with number in graphite below: HARVARD/FOGG / ART MUSEUM / 2009.46

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 170 (De Gheyn, family prints)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.46
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Latin inscription: Ad prosternendum, se docet esse feram. / En leo magnanimus, vigilanti mente recumbens, / verberet ut caudam, tollat ut ipse iubas. Nec fugiens, nec quem metuens, sed promptus et acer

Translation: About to lie down, he teaches himself to be wild. Behold the noble lion, who is reclining, but his mind is still vigilant, as he lashes his tail and raises its
mane. He does not run away, and is not afraid of anything, but sharp and ready.

Daniel Margocsy
23 January 2009

Publication History

  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2011), cat.43 p.204-205, 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

Subjects and Contexts

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