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The Mocking of Christ (from a Passion of Christ series)
Designed and engraved by: Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 8.7 x 5.2 cm (3 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6817
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 347; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 172
Signed
lower left to right, in margin below image: Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud. Cum Gratia et Priuilegio. Buschere.
Marks
verso, collector's mark in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6817; in graphite: 347
Inscriptionsin plate, in margin below image: Et caeperunt quidam conspuere eum, et/velare faciem eius, et colaphis eum/caedere, et dicere, Prophetisa. Marc. 14.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897