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The Death of Ananias

Ugo da Carpi (Italian, active about 1502–1532)
After: Agostino Veneziano (Italian, about 1490–after 1536)
After: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, 1483–1520)
1518

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in black and three shades of brown
Dimensions Platemark: 24.2 x 37.5 cm (9 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.)(trimmed on or into the borderline)
Credit Line Gift of the Children of Dr. James B. Ayer
Accession Number21.10824
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.046.27, ii/iii
DescriptionPrinted by the Letter “F” on Three Mounts Printer
Marks Recto, bottom left, stamped in black ink, the mark of Samuel Leith, Edinburgh (c.1850)(a variant of Lugt 1767); verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceSamuel Leith (L. 1767 [variant], active about 1850), Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. James Bourne Ayer (b. 1849 - d. 1910), Boston; by inheritance to his children, Mary Farwell Ayer Rousmanière (b. 1878 - d. 1935), New York; Nathaniel Farwell Ayer (b. 1879 - d. 1948), Boston, Dr. James Bourne Ayer (b. 1882 - d. 1963), Boston, and Elizabeth Ayer Inches (b. 1891); 1921, gift of the children of Dr. James B. Ayer to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 31, 1921)