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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25938
People
Cornelis Cort, Netherlandish (Hoorn, Netherlands 1533 - 1578 Rome, Italy)
After Frans Floris, Netherlandish (Antwerp 1519/20 - 1570 Antwerp)
Title
Smell
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Five Senses
Original Language Title: Odoratus
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1561
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/57147

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 20.5 x 27.2 cm (8 1/16 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, bottom edge of design, printer's ink, engraved: f. floris inve. .h. Cock excu.
  • inscription: recto, bottom edge outside design frame, printer's ink, engraved, Latin: In carunculis narium odoratus consistit sensorium, unde nervi ad cerebrum pertincunt.
  • inscription: recto, upper edge of design, left of center, printer's ink, engraved, Latin: Odoratus
  • inscription: recto , extreme upper right corner, ink, handwritten: 69 [partially cut-off, but consistent with the numeration of the other prints in this series]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
after ii/ii?
Standard Reference Number
N.H. 208

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
M25938
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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