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Anna Fullings (Goltzius's Mother) [?]
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
about 1583
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 15.9 x 11.9 cm (6 1/4 x 4 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 18.2 x 14 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 18.2 x 14 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7268
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 210; Hollstein 225
State
III or IV
Signed
Signed in plate, lower right: HGoltzius fecit
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: 7268 [Lugt 1870]; in graphite: 210
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in margin below portrait: Damnosa quid non imminuit dies:/Aetas parentum peior auis, tulit/Nos nequiores: mox daturos/Progeniem vitiosiorem. [What deterioration comes with each passing day/Our parents' era even more than that of our forebears/has made us still less fit, causing us to produce even more defective progeny]
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.