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Jan Nicquet (b. 1539 - d. 1608)

Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
1595

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 15.2 x 10.9 cm (6 x 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7257
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 177; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. VIII) 202; Leesberg (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Goltzius, part II) 236 (II/II)
State II/II
Signed Signed in plate, center right: HG
Marks Verso, lower right, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 7257 [Lugt 1870]
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, above portrait: NON . NEC . FSTA ;QUESTVF . a . I . icquete [?]; within image, upper center: ÆTAT . SVÆ. A° 1595; in margin below image, left: Tu mia non vvltum. sobotes, Vanamque figuram/Conspice, fed laudis facta Imitanda dedy/NICQVETIVS, Justa Corpus Ratione guberno,/Me sequere Effigies Viua Parentis eris.; right: [Dutch inscription, not transcribed]
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewell (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)