2011.613.57: Balaam on Mount Peor Seeing the Israelite Camp
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2011.613.57
- People
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Unidentified Artist
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
- Title
- Balaam on Mount Peor Seeing the Israelite Camp
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: The Story of Balaam
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1584
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342365
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 25.9 cm (7 1/2 x 10 3/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 65
- inscription: in plate, lower margin: Rex Moabita Vocat Balaam maledicere plebi, Quæ tamen instructu fit benedicta dei Num: 23. 24
- inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Balaam contre son gré & tous ses efforts pour maudir Jsrael le benit chanti ses louanges profetizn / sa gloire & les felicitez de son regne. Nombres 23 e 24.
- inscription: in plate, lower right corner of design area: 3
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
- ii/iii
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein (de Jode) 73; New Hollstein (de Vos) 85.II
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
- 2011.613.57
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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