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Christophe Plantin
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
about 1583
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 20.1 x 13.3 cm (7 15/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 20.5 x 13.8 cm (8 1/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 20.5 x 13.8 cm (8 1/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7261
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 181 (IV); Hollstein 207
State
IV
Signed
Signed in plate, lower right: HGoltzius fecit
Marks
Verso, collector's stamp, in black ink, in rectangle: A.F.D. [Ambroise Firmin-Didot; Lugt 119]; collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 7261 [Lugt 1870]
InscriptionsIn plate, upper right to left: CHRISTOPHORVS PLANTINVS Architypographus Regius,/ vixit annos LXXXV. obijtque Antuerpiæ CIC[in reverse].IC[in reverse]. LXXXIX.; under compass: LABORE ET CONSTAN/TIA
In plate, below image: Plantinum tibi, Spectator, proponimus, vt cum / Nomine perpetuo viuat et effigies. / Sic vbi posteritas miracula tanta librorum / Etius et innumerum sera videbit opus; / Tune es Christophorus, tune ille es? dicat: in vnum / Et sua conijciens lumina fixa virum; / Musarum o pater, exclamet, dignissime salue: / Reddita sunt studio Sæcula docta tuo.
In plate, at lower right: I. BOCHIVS.
In plate, below image: Plantinum tibi, Spectator, proponimus, vt cum / Nomine perpetuo viuat et effigies. / Sic vbi posteritas miracula tanta librorum / Etius et innumerum sera videbit opus; / Tune es Christophorus, tune ille es? dicat: in vnum / Et sua conijciens lumina fixa virum; / Musarum o pater, exclamet, dignissime salue: / Reddita sunt studio Sæcula docta tuo.
In plate, at lower right: I. BOCHIVS.
ProvenanceAmbroise Firmin-Didot (b. 1790 - d. 1876; Lugt 119), Paris; April 16 - May 12, 1877, his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Danlos & Delisle, lot 647, sold for 210 francs to Danlos (dealer). Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)