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Fishing Boats (Marine)

Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas (American (born in Holland), 1832–1895)
American

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 35.4 × 45.7 cm (13 15/16 × 18 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK990
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Marks Verso, in purple ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Koehler (Lugt 1580)
InscriptionsLower left, in plate: M F N de Haas [reversed]
Lower right, in graphite: 6
Lower right, in graphite, in the hand of Sylvester Koehler: Trial proof, from bare plate.
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA.

NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.