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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.330
People
Unidentified Artist
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Table of Contents, New Testament
Other Titles
Former Title: Index
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1585
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342638

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink and colored with rose and yellow watercolor on white antique laid paper darkened to cream, deeply creased, and reinforced at the back at top, fore, and bottom edges with strips of paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 27 × 36.4 cm (10 5/8 × 14 5/16 in.)
plate: 18.4 × 17.7 cm (7 1/4 × 6 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 342
  • inscription: in plate, the title followed by a double column listing of the sets of plates and the number of folios in each set, with the total number of folios at the end: Index historarum Noui Testamenti quæ preseti / libro iconibus expressæ habetur / De. Quatuor Euangelistos fo. 4 / [etc.] / De. Quartuor doctortib Ecclesiæ. fo. 4 / Continens folia. 128
  • inscription: verso, upper edge, brown inl: Demigieu 1749 / 8 lt[?]

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

Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 235

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
2011.613.330
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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