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The Twelve Months of the Solar Year
May
The Twelve Months of the Solar Year
Adriaen Collaert (Netherlandish, about 1560–1618)
After: Joos de Momper, the Younger (Flemish, 1564–1635)
Published by: Joannes Galle (Netherlandish, 1600–1676)
After: Joos de Momper, the Younger (Flemish, 1564–1635)
Published by: Joannes Galle (Netherlandish, 1600–1676)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 20.7 x 26.3 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 25.7 x 33.7 cm (10 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 25.7 x 33.7 cm (10 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number65.585
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch& Flemish, vol. IV) 563
State
II
Signed
Signed in plate, lower left: Iodoc. de Momper inuent.; lower center: Adrian Collaert Sculp./Ion. Galle excud.
Marks
Watermark (not identified); MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 65.583; oval turquise stamp, filled in with blue ink, probably Lugt 4073 (mark not identified)
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: GEMINI.; in lower margin, lower center: MAIVS.; lower left: Maius, quo veteres soliti sacra, reddere Maieæ,/Cantu auium gaudet, fronde virente viget.; lower right: Aucupibus præbet, qua fallant tempora, prædam:/Ledâ progenitos sidus habet Geminos.
Provenance1965, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, to the MFA for £350 [see note]. (Accession Date: May 12, 1965)
NOTE: MFA accession nos. 65.580-65.592 were purchased for this amount.
NOTE: MFA accession nos. 65.580-65.592 were purchased for this amount.