2011.613.186: Zedekiah
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2011.613.186
- People
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Unidentified Artist
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
- Title
- Zedekiah
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: The Kings of Judah
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1579
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342494
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: 21.5 x 28.2 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 196
- inscription: in plate, lower edge of design area, to right of center : 8
- inscription: in plate, to right of upper center of design area: SEDECEAS
- inscription: in plate, lower margin: Hic Vndecim annos regnauit Defect a rege Babyloniæ cui tributum pendere non Voluit / que de causa reuersus Nabuchodonosor obsedit Vrbem.
- inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Au lieu de Joachim ce Sedechias son frere a agé de .21. ans fut constitué Roy de Iudée et Jerusalem et y regna ii. ans. Se reuolta contre / Nabuchodonosor luy refuzant payer le tribut promis. Le peuple meprizant les admonitions de Ieremje est affligir et miné capif / en Babylone. Ierusalem et le Temple sont destruitz.
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) 215
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
- 2011.613.186
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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