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Mercury (from Eight Antique Gods series, 1 of 8 plates)
about 1592
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 35.4 x 21.3 cm (13 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7278
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 254; Hollstein 303; Leesberg (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Goltzius, part II)
State
I
Signed
Signed in plate, lower right: HG. Sculpt.
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: 7278 [Lugt 1870]
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: MARCVRIVS; lower left: Polidorus.
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.