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Frederick de Vries
1599
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 35.4 x 25.9 cm (13 15/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 35.9 x 26.3 cm (14 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 35.9 x 26.3 cm (14 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7265
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 190; Hollstein 218
State
Copy 2 State 2
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, lower left: Cesar capranica excudit/Romæ Anno 1599/RG
Marks
Verso, purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 7265 [Lugt 1870]; in graphite: Goltzius, H./B 190 (III, 59)./Copy No. 2, described/by Bartsch.; 2 30
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in cartouche: Theodorico Frilio Pictori egregio/aput Venetos amicitiæ filij absentis/repræsontandi gratia D. D.; and in lower margin, left: Quid tabula hoe capiat, fors non capis: en tibi paucis/Montem. Semplicitas querit amayqz fiaem.; lower right: Fida canis, simplixqz puer, quos Goltzius apto/Vivero Phidiaca fecit in cre manu./Romæ apud Carolum Losi An. 1773.
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.