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Flight into Egypt

Jacob Matham (Netherlandish, 1571–1631)
After: Bartholomaus Spranger (Netherlandish, 1546–1611)
1610

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 41.9 × 30.2 cm (16 1/2 × 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7349
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 202; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. 11) 44 I/I; Widerkehr (New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish)
State I/I
Signed Signed in plate, lower center: Ia. Matham Sculp. ed excud.; dated in plate, lower left: 1610
Marks Verso, collector's mark stamped in black: JBJ [in palette; Reverend John Burleigh James, Lugt 1425]; collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry Foster Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA Parker stamp in purple (Lugt 1870), with accession number in black ink: 7349
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower left to center: 1610. Cum privil. Sa. Sa. Ca. M. B. Spranger Inue. Ia. Matham Sculp. ed excud.
ProvenanceReverend John Burleigh James (b. 1811 - d. 1891; Lugt 1425), Knowbury Park, Shropshire; May 23, 1877, his sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, lot 3206. Henry F. Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1897, purchased by the MFA. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)