2011.613.117: Elijah Speaking to Ahab
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2011.613.117
- People
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Unidentified Artist
After Jan Snellinck, Flemish (c. 1544 - 1638)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
- Title
- Elijah Speaking to Ahab
- Other Titles
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Title: The Story of Elijah and the Prophets of Baal
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1578-79
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342425
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gold 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: 20.1 x 28.8 cm (7 15/16 x 11 5/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 127
- inscription: in plate, lower margin: Venturos absque imbre dies propheta minatur Achabo regi, pestiferamque famen. 3. Reg: i7.
- inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Helie Thesbite, profete des habitans de Galaad dit au Roy Achab: aussy vray que le Seigneur Dieu d'Jsrael vit / en la pnce duquel j'assiste ces annees cy Il ny aura pluye ny rosée si je ne le dy. 3. Roys. 17. 1. Helie est repeu / par les corbeaux de pain et de viande soir et matin 1.
- inscription: in plate, indesign area at lower edge of the fountain: .İ.
- watermark: Gothic P and illegibe countermark
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
- ii/iv
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein (de Jode) 137
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
- 2011.613.117
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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