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Creation of Adam
Johannes Sadeler (Netherlandish, 1550–about 1600)
After: Crispin van den Broeck (Netherlandish, 1524–1591)
After: Crispin van den Broeck (Netherlandish, 1524–1591)
before 1585
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 19.2 x 26.9 cm (7 9/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.2 x 29.8 cm (8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 22.2 x 29.8 cm (8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Lloyd and Vivian Hawes Collection
Accession Number2000.717
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein xxi.84 3, iii/iii
DescriptionSadeler's original series comprised eight engravings: Hollstein xxi.84.1-8. In the third state six of the eight plates were re-worked to replace the figure of God with a Hebrex tetragram. Plates 3-8 were re-numbered as 1-6, the address and other inscriptions were changed.
InscriptionsIn plate UL: NUNCUPA OMNIA ANIMANTIA.
In plate UR: IEHOVA DEUS INSPIRABAT IPSI SPIRITUM VITALEM IN NARES EIUS ATQ3. ITA HOMO FuIT ANIMA VIVENS.
In plate LL: JSadeler fecit cjVisscher excu. Cris iv I
In plate at bottom: Exiguo fingit mortalia corpora limo, Materiam terra suppeditante, Deus. Genes. C2.V.7.
Later inscriptions or marks: Verso LL in graphite pencil: 17.2
In plate UR: IEHOVA DEUS INSPIRABAT IPSI SPIRITUM VITALEM IN NARES EIUS ATQ3. ITA HOMO FuIT ANIMA VIVENS.
In plate LL: JSadeler fecit cjVisscher excu. Cris iv I
In plate at bottom: Exiguo fingit mortalia corpora limo, Materiam terra suppeditante, Deus. Genes. C2.V.7.
Later inscriptions or marks: Verso LL in graphite pencil: 17.2
ProvenanceLloyd and Vivian Hawes, Wellesley, MA; her bequest to MFA, June 2000.