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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.308
People
Unidentified Artist
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Peter Delivered from Prison by an Angel; Peter's Vision of the Unclean Beasts
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Acts of the Apostles
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1591-1600
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342616

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.)
left: 18.8 x 12.7 cm (7 3/8 x 5 in.)
right: 18.5 x 12.3 cm (7 5/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 320
  • inscription: in plate, left and right, lower edge of design area, toward left: M. de Vos inuent. / M. de Vos inuent.
  • inscription: in plate, left and right, lower margin: Inycit Herodes constanti vincula Petro / Dira, sed angelico munere liber, abit. act. cap. 12 // Orandi studio dum Petrus summa petiuit, / Aspiciens coelum, mystica signa videt. act. cap. 10
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, left and right, brown ink: Herodes ayant fait couppre la teste a Jacques, et voyant que cela auoit estré / fort agreable aux Juifz, il pensa quil seroit bon de fit pareillement / mourir Pierre, parquoy il le fait emprisonner, Mais l'ange de dieu le / deliure, quoy qu'il fuit enchesné de deux grosses chesues de fer. // Sainct pierre priant fut rauj en esprit et veit comme vn grand linceul / descendant du ciel auquel estoyent toutes sortes d'animaux, et entendit / Vne voix qui luy dist, Pierre leue toy, tue de ces animaux et en mange, / et il respondit, Seigneur a n'aduienne que je mange chose pollue et souillee, / la voix luy repliqua, Ceque dieu a puriffeé ni le dy point pollu
  • watermark: Gothic P

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) 504, 503; Hollstein 901.I; Hollstein 899.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
2011.613.308
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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