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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.320
People
Adriaen Collaert, Flemish (c. 1560 - 1618)
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Title Plate, Icones Revelationum; Saint John on Patmos; The Vision of the Seven Candlesticks; The Twenty-four Elders with Harps around the Throne of Godl The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Revelation of Saint John
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
before 1585
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342628

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.)
center: 9.2 x 7.5 cm (3 5/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
upper left: 8.3 x 7.5 cm (3 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.)
upper right: 8.1 x 7.7 cm (3 3/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
lower left: 8.4 x 7.5 cm (3 5/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
lower right: 8.3 x 7.5 cm (3 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 332
  • inscription: in plate, title plate only, within strapwork border: ICONES REVELATIO = / NVM ˑSˑ JOHS / EVANGELISTE / in Pathmo / G. de Iode
  • inscription: in plate, four plates from left to right, top and bottom row, upper margin: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
  • inscription: in plate, four plates from left to right, top and bottom row, lower margin: Signa videt miranda, sacro dum pectore pathmi / Ioannes Christi Verba fidemq docet. / Felix ille animi qui nocte dieque reuoluit / Verba dei memori cunctaque mente tenet // Signa Videt miranda Sacro dum pectore Pathni, / Ioannos Christ Verba fidemq docet / Astra Videt septem totidem candelabra et ēsē / Ancipitem Sancti qui exit ab ore Viri / Cap. 1 // Exphcat agna librū morternq perpessa, ligatum / Primates agnam cæhcolæque carauit[?] / Ex cunctus aperire librū dignissimus agne es / Sanguine nāq tuo turba redempta sumus / Cap. 4.5 // Quanta per humanas pœnarum incōmoda gentes / Grassentur breuiter clara figura docet / Præsto Tyrānis adest sequetur cædesque famesque / Terribili horrida mors omnia falce metit / Cap 6

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
title only state; ii/iv
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 360-364

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
2011.613.320
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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