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Josina Hamels (Wife of Jacques de la Faille)
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
1580
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 20.1 x 13 cm (7 15/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7271
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 213; Hollstein 185 (II); The Illustrated Bartsch 213 (III)
State
III
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, in cartouche: HGoltzius.fecit./.15.80.
Marks
No watermark; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 7271 [Lugt 1870]; graphite: 213; m/p/o/.; 82s; [?]
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in oval frame surrounding portrait: SEQVI PARATA, SIVE TE BELLO DVCEM SEV PACE CIVEM POSTVLABIT PATRIA. REBECCA QVALIS, QVALIS AVT PARENS SARA HAC VNA LEX EST CONIVGI VIRVM SEQVI.
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.