Hope (from the series The Seven Virtues, plate 2 of 7)

1530
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)

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Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch (intaglio)128; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. X) 128; Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 128 (Ib/III)

Dimensions

Image: 16.4 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.) Platemark: 16.4 x 10.8 cm (6 7/16 x 4 1/4 in.) Sheet: 16.4 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)

Accession Number

P8801

Medium or Technique

Engraving

Not On View

Collections

Europe, Prints and Drawings

Classifications

Prints

Inscription

Inscribed in plate, lower right: SPES

Signed

Signed in plate, lower right: L

Markings

Watermark: gothic p; recto, lower right, in graphite: 2; verso, collector's stamp in red ink: H.F.S. [Henry Foster Sewall, Lugt 1309]; much faded MFA Parker stamp [Lugt 1868] in purple ink with accession number in black ink: 8801; in graphite: 128

Provenance

Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.

Credit Line

Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund