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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25941
People
Pieter de Jode, the Elder, Flemish (1570 - 1634)
Title
Touch
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Five Senses
Original Language Title: Tactus
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/54971

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 19 x 23.2 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, inside bottom of design frame, printer's ink, engraved: Pet. de Iode fecit . / Vidua Gerardi de Iode excud .
  • inscription: recto, below design frame, printer's ink, engraved, Latin: Tactus. / Cùm tactus sensum Venus atq[ue] Cupido gubernent, / Jucundum est tactu delicijsq[ue] frui . / Attamen obscoenè tangendi prava voluptas / Gignere tangenti noxia saepè solet . / Corn. Kil. Duffl .
  • inscription: recto, extreme upper left, graphite, handwritten: 193.
  • watermark: left middle edge of design, paper, pressed paper: Gothic 'P' with horn countermark: most similar to Briquet, vol. III, no. 8888, ascribed to Koblenz, c. 1594

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Wurzbach, no. 17

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
M25941
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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