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August


The Twelve Months of the Solar Year
Adriaen Collaert (Netherlandish, about 1560–1618)
After: Joos de Momper, the Younger (Flemish, 1564–1635)
Published by: Joannes Galle (Netherlandish, 1600–1676)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 20.8 x 26.2 cm (8 3/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 25.8 x 33.7 cm (10 3/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number65.588
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish), vol. IV) 566
State II
Signed Signed in plate, left of lower center: Iodoc. de Momper inuent./Adrian. Collaert Sculp.; lower right: Ioan. Galle excud.
Marks Watermark (not identified); MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 65.584; oval turquise stamp, filled in with blue ink, probably Lugt 4073 (mark not identified)
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: VIRGO.; in lower margin, lower center: AVGVSTVS.; lower left: Sextilis modò fert Augusto à Cæsare nomen,/In metas semen qui Cereale struit,; lower right: Et largam confert operosus in horrea sessem,/Spicea dum manibus munera Virgo gerit.
Provenance1965, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, to the MFA for £350 [see note]. (Accession Date: May 12, 1965)

NOTE: MFA accession nos. 65.580-65.592 were purchased for this amount.