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Fortune (The Little Fortune)

Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
about 1495

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 12 × 6.5 cm (4 3/4 × 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP342
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch (intaglio) 078; Meder 71 (Ic/Id)
Signed Signed in plate, lower center: [monogram]
Marks No watermark; verso, collector's mark in red ink: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; in graphite: 9A [and others, difficult to decipher]; faded MFA Parker stamp in black ink (Lugt 1870), with accession number in black ink: 342
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1897, sold by Sewall to the MFA [see note 1]. (Date Acquired: October 21, 1897)

NOTES: [1] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.