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The Soap-Bubbles (from the Infancy of Christ series)
Designed and engraved by: Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 9.9 x 6.6 cm (3 7/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 12.4 x 8.7 cm (4 7/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 12.4 x 8.7 cm (4 7/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6834
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 444; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 410 (I)
Signed
in margin below image: Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud. Cum Gratia et Priuilegio. Buschere.
Marks
no watermark; verso, collector's mark in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6834; in graphite: 444
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897