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Large Landscape with the Parable of the Sower
1605
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 35.9 × 50.3 cm (14 1/8 × 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB2593
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 075, II; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. XI) 69 (I/I); Widerkehr (New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish)
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, lower right: I. Maetham Scu[torn]; and under sleeping farmer: A°. 1605
Marks
Verso, in graphite: Margin with latin text cut off. 2d state? date added./B.III.150.75./Satin sowing [?] in the ploughed/field.; MFA Babcock Bequest stamp in purple [Lugt 207], with accession number in black ink: 2593
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower left: Cum privil./Sa. Ca. M.; lower right: A. Blomaert Inue/I. Maetham scu[torn]/et excud
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899; Lugt 207), Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)