M25934: Sight

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M25934

People

Cornelis Cort, Netherlandish (Hoorn, Netherlands 1533 - 1578 Rome, Italy)
After Frans Floris, Netherlandish (Antwerp 1519/20 - 1570 Antwerp)

Title

Sight

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: The Five Senses
Original Language Title: Visus

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1561

Culture

Netherlandish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/54968

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

plate: 20.7 x 27.2 cm (8 1/8 x 10 11/16 in.)
frame: 39.7 x 49.8 cm (15 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: recto, lower left, printer's ink, engraved: franciscus floris inventor .h. cock excudebat
• inscription: recto, bottom edge, outside design frame, printer's ink, engraved: Sensorium visus exterius quidem sunt oculi, interius vero duo nervi a cerebro pertingentes as oculos
• inscription: recto, upper edge of design, right of middle, printer's ink, engraved: Visus

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

after ii/ii?

Standard Reference Number

N.H. 204

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in honor of Mrs. Arthur K. Solomon

Accession Year

2004

Object Number

M25934

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Susan Dackerman, ed., Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2011), cat. 99 p.390-395, repr.

Exhibition History

• Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/06/2011 - 12/10/2011; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, 01/17/2012 - 04/08/2012

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