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Erasmus of Rotterdam
Engraved by: Frans Huys (Netherlandish, 1522–1562)
After: Hans Holbein, the Younger (German, 1497 or 1498–1543)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
After: Hans Holbein, the Younger (German, 1497 or 1498–1543)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
1555
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 38.4 x 25.7 cm (15 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP2912
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. IX, F. Huys) 132, i / ii
State
I/II
Signed
Signed in plate, on bookmark, lower right: FH
Marks
Recto, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Lugt 1309]; verso, lower left: collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Lugt 1309]; in pencil: re; in pencil, lower right: superb 5[?] 5 5 0; MFA Parker collection stamp with accession number in ink: 2912
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, across top: MAGNVS x ILLE x ERASMVS x ROTERODAMVS x; on plaque, upper right: NATVS . ROTERODAMI,/OCTOBR . XXVIII . AN° ./M . CCCC . LXVII ./OBIIT . BASILEÆ . XII ./IVLII . AN . M . D ./XXXVI ./H COCK EXCVDEBAT/1555; on the foredge of a book, lower right: BIBLIA; and in the plaque under the portrait, lower edge: EFFIGIEM AD SENIVM MAGNI VERGENTIS ERASMI:/CERNERE SI CVPIAS : PICTA TABELLA DABIT/DOCTILOQVOS CVIVS MIRATA EST ROMA LEPORES :/INSTANS TVNC SENIO TALIS ERASMVS ERAT
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; November 1897, purchased through the Harvey D. Parker Fund by the MFA. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)