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The Adoration of the Magi

about 1510–1550

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks, in three shades of gray-violet
Dimensions Sheet: 33.2 x 25 cm (13 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)(trimmed to the borderline at the top and sides; lacking 2-3 mm at the bottom)
Credit Line Gift of the Children of Dr. James B. Ayer
Accession Number21.10851
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.030.3
Marks Verso, upper center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceDr. James Bourne Ayer (b. 1849 - d. 1910), Boston; by inheritance to his children, Mary Farwell (neé Ayer) Rousmanière (b. 1878 - d. 1935), NY, NY, Nathaniel Farwell Ayer (b. 1879 - d. 1948), Boston, Dr. James Bourne Ayer (b. 1882 - d. 1963), Boston, and Elizabeth (neé Ayer) Inches (b. 1891 - d. ?); December 31, 1921, their gift to the MFA.