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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1660
People
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
The Circumcision
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Birth and Early Life of Christ
Alternate Title: Circumcision (in Dürer's Style)
Series/Book Title: "Meisterstiche"
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1594
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/274739

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 48.4 × 36.2 cm (19 1/16 × 14 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, bottom margin, to left and right: Cernis vt octaua sit circuncisus Jesus / Luce puer, tenero accipiens in corpore vulnus, // Ad normam veteris legis, ritumq receptum, / I sacidis multus obseruatumq per annos. / C. Schoneus.
  • inscription: in plate, foregroud of design area, on tablet: 1594 / HG[monogram
  • inscription: in plate, lower left corner of design area: 4
  • collector's mark: lower right corner: G G [Jan Baptist de Graaf (Lugt 1120)]
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: Dr. / WA[linked] / Pr. [within a circular double borderline; Wilhelm August Ackermann (Lugt 791)]
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with black ink numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1660
  • inscription: verso, black crayon: Durer

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jan Baptiste de Graaf (1742-1804), Amsterdam (Lugt 1120). Dr. Wilhelm August Ackermann (1793-1865), Lubeck and Dresden (Lugt 791). Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/vi
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 11, Bartsch 18, Filedt Kok 104.4, TIB0301.18

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1660
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Precision and Prestige: The Arts of Engraving, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/11/2001 - 12/02/2001

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