- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2011.613.200
- People
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Unidentified Artist
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
- Title
- Table of Contents, Old Testament
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Catalog of Histories Which Are Included in This Book
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1579
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342508
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent watercolor on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 27 × 36.4 cm (10 5/8 × 14 5/16 in.)
plate: 19.6 × 27.5 cm (7 11/16 × 10 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 210
- inscription: in plate, top line (as title) and lower right (as credit to the publisher), with the actual contents with their itemization and individual pagination in three columns (not transcribed here) in between: CATALOGVS HISTORIARVM, quæ hoc libro compræhenduntur...Continens in somma 211 fol. // Præsentes Figuræ Biblicæ seu Historiæ sunt excuse / ANTVERPÆ apud GERARDVM / de IODE sub signo floreni / aurei in Platea vulga= / riter dicta Calijne / veste.
- inscription: On the verso of this page there is an offset from another impression of the Contents engraving that is on its recto.: [offset]
- Provenance
- [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
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- State
- ii/v
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein (de Jode) 2
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in memory of Robert Bradford Wheaton
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2011.613.200
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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