2011.613.52: The Brazen Serpent
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2011.613.52
- 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 Brazen Serpent
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: The Story of Moses in the Desert
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1579
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342360
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
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sheet: 27 x 36.4 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
plate: 19 x 26.3 cm (7 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 60
- inscription: in plate, lower margin: In medio campi coluber suspensus ahenus. Cernitur hinc uere cura salutis erat. Nume. 2i. Cap.
- inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Moyse par le commandemt de Dieu fait vn serpent d'arain & le mit sur vne perche, & quand quelque serpents / auoir mordu vn homme Il regardoit le serpent d'arain & estoit guary. Nombres 2İ. 8.
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) 70; Hollstein 65.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
- 2011.613.52
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2500 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/09/2017 - 03/08/2018
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