M25966: The King Sending His Servants to Invite the Guests

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M25966

People

Johannes Wierix, Netherlandish (Antwerp 1549 - c. 1620 Brussels)
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)

Title

The King Sending His Servants to Invite the Guests

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Is.58; Matt.22, 23:37
Series/Book Title: The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

before 1585

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/69950

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Engraving printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper,darkened and soiled

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

plate: 22.5 x 27 cm (8 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
sheet: 27.2 x 32.9 cm (10 11/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: IH.W
• watermark: gothic P
• inscription: engraved, lower left corner of design: M.D. VOS. INVENT. / saedler excud.
• inscription: in lower sheet margin, brown ink and graphite: 226 [struck through in graphite]
• inscription: n lower sheet margin, graphite: 229
• inscription: engraved in lower plate margin, three quotations from the Bible, left, center, and right: Clama ne cesse,..Isaie. 58. a. / SIMILE EST REGNVM...MATH. 22 . A . / Quoties uolui uos...Matth. 23 . 37 .
• collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with accession number written below in graphite:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY
  / M25966 [Lugt 936]
  
  
  
  
  
  
• inscription: engraved inscription printed in the lower plate margin: Princibibus Samson fatum...Judicum. 16. Cap.   7
• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written within in brown ink:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  JOHN WITT RANDALL COLL. / HARVARD COLLEGE / no. 5701 [number on a
  dotted line] [Lugt 2130]
  
  
  
  
  
  

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

New Hollstein 166, Mauquoy-Hendrickx 278, Hollstein (Vos) 573

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

M25966

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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