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Design for a Fountain, with Bacchus on a Goat (plate 35 from Dietterlin's Architectura)

Wendel Dietterlin (German, 1550–1599)
probably between about 1593 and 1598

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Platemark: 24.8 x 18.2 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 25 x 18.4 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK3769
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hollstein (German) 017
Signed Not signed
Marks Watermark (yes, but not yet identified); verso, collector's signature in black ink: S.R. Koehler; stamped in purple: S.R.KOEHLER [Lugt 1580]; MFA Koehler Collection stamp, with accession number in ink: 3769 [Lugt 1581]; in graphite: $_.40¢
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower left: 35
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)

NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.