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Adoration of the Magi
Master IAM of Zwolle (Netherlandish, active about 1470–1490)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 34.8 x 23.9 cm (13 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP857
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 001; Lehrs 1 (I/I); Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. XII) 1 (I/I)
State
I/I
Signed
Signed in plate, upper center, inside engraved border: zwott
Marks
Watermark (yes, but not yet identified); verso, collector's stamp in black ink: A.F.D. [Ambroise Firmin-Didot; Lugt 119]; collector's stamp in blue: [coat of arms, with] CABINET/LOUIS GALICHON [in scroll; Lugt 1060]; collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; in ink: 857; in graphite: 166
ProvenanceAmbroise Firmin-Didot (b. 1790 - d. 1876; Lugt 119), Paris; April 16 - May 12, 1877, his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Danlos & Delisle, lot 166, sold for 400 francs to Danlos; Louis Galichon (b. 1829 - d. 1893; Lugt 1060) Paris; March 4 - 9, 1895, his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 1172, sold for 360 francs. Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; November 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)
Note: Max Lehrs, Geschichte und Kritischer Katalog des Deutschen Niederländischen und Französischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert, vol. 7, Vienna, 1930, no. 1, footnote 10, p. 177.
Note: Max Lehrs, Geschichte und Kritischer Katalog des Deutschen Niederländischen und Französischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert, vol. 7, Vienna, 1930, no. 1, footnote 10, p. 177.