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Vespera
The Four Times of Day
Requires Photography
Evening
Vespera
The Four Times of Day
Engraved by: Adriaen Collaert (Netherlandish, about 1560–1618)
After: Marten de Vos (Netherlandish, 1532–1603)
After: Marten de Vos (Netherlandish, 1532–1603)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 20.5 x 26 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 27.6 x 35.4 cm (10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 27.6 x 35.4 cm (10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number65.578
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish) 443
Signed
Signed in plate, within image, lower left: M. de Vos inuent; lower right: Adr. Collaert Sculp
Marks
Unidentified watermark; verso, unidentified collector's stamp in turquiose, probably filled in with blue ink: [Lugt 4073]; MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 65.578
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: VESPERA.; in lower margin, lower left: VESPERA adest præceps: pars almj extrema diei/Ad cænam & somnum corpora lassa voat.; lower right: Vergit ad Occasum quicquid prouênit ab Ortu:/Fitq Senex tandem, qui Puer ante fuit./Corn. Kis. Dussl.
ProvenanceUnidentified collector. 1965, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, to the MFA for £190 [see note]. (Accession Date: May 12, 1965)
NOTE: MFA accession nos. 65.576-65.579 were purchased for this amount.
NOTE: MFA accession nos. 65.576-65.579 were purchased for this amount.