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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25936
People
Cornelis Cort, Netherlandish (Hoorn, Netherlands 1533 - 1578 Rome, Italy)
After Frans Floris, Netherlandish (Antwerp 1519/20 - 1570 Antwerp)
Title
Touch
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Tactus
Series/Book Title: The Five Senses
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1561
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/55452

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 20.8 x 27 cm (8 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
frame: 39.7 x 49.8 cm (15 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: bottom edge of design, printer's ink, engraved: franciscus floris inventor h. cock excu[dit]
  • inscription: recto, lower edge outside of design frame, printer's ink, engraved, Latin: Tactus sensorium per totum corpus expansum est, ac proinde etiam eius organum
  • inscription: recto, right of middle, near top edge, printer's ink, engraved, Latin: Tactus
  • inscription: recto, extreme upper right corner, ink, handwritten: 73

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
after ii/ii?
Standard Reference Number
N.H. 206

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
M25936
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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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