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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.181
People
Unidentified Artist
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Ahaziah
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Kings of Judah
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1579
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342489

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: 21.7 x 27.9 cm (8 9/16 x 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 191
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge of design area, centered: 3
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, left, center, and right: Pius et fœlix regnauit annos 25 Vicit / Ammonitas fine præbo Eo regnāte Hehas Vixit // Dissimilis patri Idola interfeit / maiores et fratres suos Regna.an.8 // Uno tantum anno in imperio fuit, captus a Rege / Samariæ Iehu, ex vulnere peryt, in Mageddo
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink, left, center, and right: Josaphat bon Roy et heureux regna 25. ans / deffit les Ammonites sans combat. Sous son / regne vescut Helye 2 Chroniques. // Joram son filz regna 8. ans adora / les Jdoles fit mourir ses freres. // Ochizias son filz regna seulemt vn an. fut / pris en Maggido par Iehu Roy de Samarje, qui le / fit mourir et 42 freres siens.1. 2. Roys.
  • inscription: in plate, above figures, left, center, and right: IOSAPHAT / IORAM / OCHOZIAS

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) 210

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
2011.613.181
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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