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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.322
People
Adriaen Collaert, Flemish (c. 1560 - 1618)
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
The Fourth Trumpet Call: An Angel Crying Woe; The Ffith Trumpet Call: The Plague of Locusts; The Sixth Trumpet Call: Angels Kill a Third of Mankind; The Angel with the Opened Book
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/342630

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.)
upper left: 8.4 x 7.6 cm (3 5/16 x 3 in.)
upper right: 8.3 x 7.5 cm (3 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.)
lower left: 8.3 x 7.4 cm (3 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.)
lower right: 8 x 7.5 cm (3 1/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 334
  • inscription: in plate, upper row left and right, lower row left and right, upper margin: 9 / 10 / 11 / 12
  • inscription: in plate, upper row left and right, lower row left and right, lower margin: Ore sed angelico resonans tuba quarta, malorum / Terrorumque homini causa tremenda fuit / Namque suum lumen Sol torris denegat, atque / Luna caret radys astraque nigra latent Cap. 7 // Angelus vt quintus signum dedit æce canoro / Heu sæuus gentes Vndique terror habet / Et barathro horribiles vultuq armisque locuscæ / Per quinos menses terrea regna prenuu[?]t / Cap 8 // Mox sexta resonante tuba de carcere missi / Terribiles geny quatuor ense ferunt / Millia multa equitum ferroque igniq tremenda / Ecce ruunt hominum tertia parsq cadit Cap. 9 // Angelus en fortis cœlesti accedit ab arce / Qui terram calcat qui pede calcat aquas / Infrendens que ferox sinuosa volumina profert / Oblatum iussum deuorat ille librum / Cap. 10
  • inscription: in plate, upper left plate in design area, streaming from an angel's mouth, in reverse: WE WE

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
ii/iv
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 369-372

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
2011.613.322
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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