2011.613.2: The Creation of Light
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2011.613.2
- People
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Johann Sadeler I, Netherlandish (Brussels 1550 - 1600-8 Venice)
After Chrispijn van den Broeck, Netherlandish (Mechelen 1524 - 1590/91 Antwerp)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
- Title
- The Creation of Light
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: The Story of the Creation of the World and the Fall of Man
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1579-1585
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342310
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gold on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream, soiled and crushed, reinforced with strips of paper on the verso top, fore, and bottom edges
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
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sheet: 27 x 36.4 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
plate: 19 x 25.5 cm (7 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 2
- inscription: in plate, lower margin: Verbi deus potentia lucis creat exordia, Cælum locat, fundat ƒolum et mgna pfert lumina. Ger. de Iode
- inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Creation du monde. Soit veu la Pseau. i04
- inscription: in plate, upper edge, center: [tetragram]
- inscription: in plate, lower edge, toward right in pale clouds: 1
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Paul Prouté, Paris, France, sold]; to Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Concord, MA, later Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2011.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein (de Jode) 4, Hollstein 66
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in memory of Robert Bradford Wheaton
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2011.613.2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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