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Faith (from a series The Virtues, one of seven plates)
Engraved by: Jacob Matham (Netherlandish, 1571–1631)
Designed by: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
Designed by: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
1597
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 13.4 × 9.9 cm (5 1/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
Platemark: 15.3 × 10.3 cm (6 × 4 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 16.4 × 10.5 cm (6 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 15.3 × 10.3 cm (6 × 4 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 16.4 × 10.5 cm (6 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB2590.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 117; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. 11) one of 256-262 I/V; Léna Widerkehr (New Hollstein)
State
I/V
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, upper right: HGoltzius Inuent [engraved over "fecit"?/JMatham Sculp./ A°1597.
Marks
No watermark; verso, MFA Babcock Bequest stamp in purple (Lugt 207), with accession number in ink: 1/2 / 2590
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in lower margin: Sacra fides passim, nulli violanda, probatur,/Devincit varias hec firmo fædere gentes. C. Schoneus.
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899; Lugt 207), Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)