About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Jan Saenredam
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Title
- Allegory of Human Nature
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Place
- Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- c. 1600
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Medium
- Engraving on ivory laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Lettered upper center: "Naturae sequitur semina quisque suae"; lower center: "CKetel inven et figuravit JSaenred sculp. JRazet divulgavit / Robbertus de Baudous excudebat." and in lower cartouche: "Benefico splendidoque Sioni a Lus hunc humanae indolis typum Jac. Razetus in propensae voluntatis et studij tesseram libens lubensque dedic."
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Dimensions
- Sheet: 52.7 × 37.1 cm (20 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.); secondary support: 61.9 × 45.6 cm (24 3/8 × 18 in.)
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Credit Line
- Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds
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Reference Number
- 2023.1224
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/268789/manifest.json
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