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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.14
People
Hans Collaert the Elder, Netherlandish (1525/30 - 1580)
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
The Confusion of Tongues
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Story of the Tower of Babel
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1577-79
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342322

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor 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: 22.9 x 30.6 cm (9 x 12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 18
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin: Linguis confusis Nimrodi dissipat ausus, Infectumque deus vult opus esse virum
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Partant son nom fut appellé Babel. pour ce que le Seigneur confondit le langage de toutte la terre & de la les epandie / sur la terre uniuerselle. Gen ii. 9.

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

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 20; New Hollstein (Collaert) 15.I

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
2011.613.14
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2500 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/10/2016 - 03/15/2017

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