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Abraham Casting Out Hagar
1603
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 46.9 × 36.1 cm (18 7/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 48.2 × 37 cm (19 × 14 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 48.2 × 37 cm (19 × 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7345
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 063; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. 11) 2 I/II; Widerkehr (New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish)
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, lower right: Cum privil. Sa. Cæ. M./ Abrahamus Bloemaert Inven. I. Maetham Sculp./et excudit A°1603.
Marks
Watermark [not identified]; verso, collector's stamp in black ink: [Reverend John Burleigh James; Lugt 1425]; collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 7345 [Lugt 1870]; in graphite: eV B63.
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in margin below image, lower left: Gen. XXI/Dum petulans Dominæ non insultare veretur, / Cum nato Jussa est vertere serva solum.; lower right: Rupert. in Gen./Sic, Christo, Christique gregi dum illudere certant/Judæos meritò par quoque pæna premit. SHS [monogram]
ProvenanceReverend John Burleigh James (b. 1811 - d. 1891; Lugt 1424), Knowbury Park, Shropshire, England; 1877, his sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, London, lot no. 3192. Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York;1897, purchased by the MFA. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)