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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.12
People
Unidentified Artist
After Hans Bol, Netherlandish (Mechelen, Belgium 1534 - 1593 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
The End of the Flood
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Story of Noah and the Flood
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1579
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342320

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
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 27 x 36.4 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
plate: 23.3 x 32 cm (9 3/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 15
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin: POST ANNVM, NOE CVM OMNIB: EGREDITVR, ET OFFERT HOLOCAVSTA DOMINO. GEN. VIII.
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Le Deluge passé, Noé sort de l'arche edifie vn autel a Dieu et offret holocaust sur jceluy. Et le seigneur sentetit vn / odeur souef et dit en son coeur Je ne maudeiray plus d[illeg.]ayant la terre a cauze [illeg]. Gen. 8. 23.

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) 17; Hollstein 215

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
2011.613.12
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Luminous Pages in the Thesarus Sacrarum", Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums ([e-journal], January 14, 2019), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/luminous-pages-in-the-em-thesaurus-sacrarum-em, accessed January 31, 2019, repr.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2500 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/02/2016 - 07/12/2016

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