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Sibyl Reading

Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
After: Ugo da Carpi (Italian, active about 1502–1532)
After: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, 1483–1520)
early 16th century

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from two blocks in olive brown and black
Dimensions Sheet: 26.6 x 21.2 cm (10 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.)(trimmed into, and in places slightly inside of, the borderline)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number64.1077
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.089.6
Marks Verso, bottom left, stamped in blue-violet ink, the mark of Karl Ewald Hasse, Leipzig (1810-1902)(Lugt 860); verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)
ProvenanceKarl Ewald Hasse (b. 1810 - d. 1902; Lugt 860), Leipzig. W.G. Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; 1964, bequest of W. G. Russell Allen to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 23, 1964)