2011.613.324: Angels Swinging Sickles and Pressing Wine; Angels Pouring Out the Seven Bowls of God's Wrath upon the Earth ; The Whore of Babylon ; The Fall of Babylon
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2011.613.324
- People
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Adriaen Collaert, Flemish (c. 1560 - 1618)
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
- Title
- Angels Swinging Sickles and Pressing Wine; Angels Pouring Out the Seven Bowls of God's Wrath upon the Earth ; The Whore of Babylon ; The Fall of Babylon
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: The Revelation of Saint John
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- before 1585
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342632
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.)
upper left: 8.4 x 8 cm (3 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
upper right: 8.3 x 7.8 cm (3 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)
lower left: 8.2 x 7.6 cm (3 1/4 x 3 in.)
lower right: 8.4 x 8 cm (3 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 336
- inscription: in plate, upper row left and right, lower row left and right, upper margin: 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
- inscription: in plate, upper row left and right, lower row left and right, lower margin: Messis ne duita Veniet, qua denique Christus / Eyciet regno scandala cuncta suo / Puta cohors agmun sequitur, lethumque piorrū / Est felix segetem falx metit atque botros. / Cap. 14 // Cœlesti Septem venientes arta ministri / Septem pœnarum pocula plena gerut / Hæc simul offundunt his bestia tangitur ingens / Que turpes ranas ore patente vomit / Cap. 15.16 // Immani vehitur meretrix obscæna Dracone / Aurato calici mixta Venena ferens / Cuius iniminensum trepidandia potentia surgit / Hanc cupiunt Reges hanc cupiuntque Duces / Cap. 17 // Deuastata iacent Babylonis mœnia clamat / Angelus et meretrix pressa dolore perit / Mercantes lugent summi lugentq Monarchæ / Hæc propter fœdæ tristia fata lupæ / Cap. 18
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) 377- 380
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
- 2011.613.324
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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