2011.613.13: The Building of the Tower of Babel
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2011.613.13
- People
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Hans Collaert the Elder, Netherlandish (1525/30 - 1580)
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
- Title
- The Building of the Tower of Babel
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: The Story of the Tower of Babel
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1577-79
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342321
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
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sheet: 27 x 36.4 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
plate: 22.7 x 30.7 cm (8 15/16 x 12 1/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 17
- inscription: in plate, lower margin: Hic labor hic studium, crescunt fundamina turris, E saxis moles erigiturque grauis.
- inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Edifions vne cité & vne tour dont le sommet soit jusques au ciel. Gen 11. 4.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Paul Prouté, Paris, France, sold]; to Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Concord, MA, later Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2011.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- i/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- New New Hollstein (de Jode) 19; Hollstein (Collaert) 14.I
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in memory of Robert Bradford Wheaton
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2011.613.13
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2500 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/12/2016 - 11/10/2016
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