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Misero (The Beggar)

Unidentified artist, Italian, 17th century
Copied after: Master of the E-Series Tarocchi (Italian (Ferrarese), active c. 1462 – 1467)
about 1600-1700

Medium/Technique Pen drawing
Dimensions Sheet: 18.3 x 10.3 cm (7 3/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP961
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind E.I.01a (copy in pen and ink); Bartsch XIII, 132, 18 (copy in pen and ink)
Marks Verso, bottom left, stamped in red ink, the mark of Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); verso, lower right-center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note]. (Accession Date: October 21, 1891)

NOTE: Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized in 1897, one year after his death.