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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.23
People
Unidentified Artist
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Esau Selling His Birthright to Jacob
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Esau Selling his Birthright to Jacob for a Pottage of Lentils
Series/Book Title: The Story of Jacob and Esau
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacracrum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1579
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342331

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: 21.3 x 27 cm (8 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin,graphite: 28
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin: Suscipit en Esau rubicundam a fratre polentam, Cui primogeniti tradit habére decus. Genesis. 25.
  • inscription: in plate, lower left and lower right edge of design area: .1. / Gerardus de Iode excudebat.
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Esau filz d'jsaac, retournant de la chasse vend a son frer Jacob son droit de primogeniture pour vn potage de lentille. Gen 25. 33.

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/iii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode), 36; Hollstein 68.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
2011.613.23
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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