- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2011.613.6
- People
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Johann Sadeler I, Netherlandish (1550 - 1600-8)
After Chrispijn van den Broeck, Netherlandish (Mechelen 1524 - 1590/91 Antwerp)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
- Title
- The Temptation
- 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, 1585 edition - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1575
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342314
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gold on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 27 x 36.4 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
plate: 19.5 x 26.6 cm (7 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 6
- inscription: in plate, below image: Iußa dei ƒumpto violantur ab arbore pomo, Efficit hoc tacitis vipera ƒæúa dolis. Geneƒis. 3.
- inscription: in plate, lower right corner of design area: 5
- inscription: in plate, lower left and lower right corner of design area: Jhsaler. facī: 1575. / 5
- inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Le Seigneur dit [erased] La femme seduitte par le serpent induit l'homme á peché.
- Provenance
- [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
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- State
- ii/iv
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein (de Jode) 8, Hollstein 70
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in memory of Robert Bradford Wheaton
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2011.613.6
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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