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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.136
People
Unidentified Artist
After Ambrosius Francken (1544 - 1618)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Xerxes
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Kings of Persia
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
before 1579
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342444

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: 25.5 x 20.5 cm (10 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 146
  • inscription: in plate, upper edge interupted by the figure's helmet: Xerxes quartus rex fuit Dary filius minor natu [helmet] successit patri defuncto in Imperio quod / ex Vtroque parente regio fuisset maior enim natu [helmet] ante regnum oblatum suscetus erat / regnauit 20 a: Justinus [helmet] lib. 2. et initio 3.
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge at left: 4
  • inscription: right margin (lower margin relative to plate orientation), brown ink: XERXES second filz de Darius comme filz de pere et mere Roy et Royne luy succeda, excluant son / arbiteage d'Artapgernes oncle paternel des deux. Il roint in Grec auec vn million d'hommes, et nombre / jncroyable de uaisseaux. fut en partie defait par Leonidas au pas de Thermopyles et / par Themistocles et Cimon Atheniens, comme escru Plutarque en leurs vyes. Regna 20.ns fut tué par [strike through] / Artabanus son Lieutenant. Justin l. 2. et 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/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 158

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
2011.613.136
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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