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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.179
People
Unidentified Artist
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Saul, David, Salomon
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Saul, David and Solomon
Series/Book Title: The Kings of Judah
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1585
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342487

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: 21.6 x 27.6 cm (8 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 189
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, below each figure, left, center, and right: Saul primus in Israel rex annos. 40. regnauit / propter impietatem perijt et totum eius genus, / extinctum est // Dauid regnauit annos. 40. et puniuit / eum deus ob admissum adulterium. // Salomon annos. 40. rex fuit sed eo defuncto / destractum regnum est propter adulterium Dauidis.
  • inscription: in plate lower edge of design area, to left: G. de Iode / 1
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, beneath each figure, left, center, and right; brown ink: SAVL premier Roy d'Israel regna 40. ans. / Pour sa desobijssant a Dieu Il perit auecq toutte / sa race. // Dauid gendre de SAVL regna 40 ans / fut puny de Dieu á cause de son adultere / auecq Betsabée. // Salomon filz de Dauid et de Betsabée regna 40. ans / apres sa mort le Royaume fut diuisé á cause de l'adultere / commes par son pere Dauid..
  • inscription: in plate, above figures, left, center, and right: SAVL / DAVID / SALAMON

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) 216; New Hollstein (de Vos) 185.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
2011.613.179
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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