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The destruction of Babylon
The Fall of Babylon (The Apocalypse, Chapter 18)
The destruction of Babylon
Jean Duvet (French, 1485–1561)
about 1645-1655
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 30.1 × 21.2 cm (11 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.)(trimmed within the platemark; trimmed around the semi-circular borderline at the top)
Credit Line
Special Print Fund
Accession NumberM27841
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Eisler 56, ii/iii; Bartsch 30, only state; Robert-Dumesnil (vol. 11, p. 87) 44, ii/ii; IFF 39, ii/ii; Le Blanc 44
DescriptionPublished in 1561
Marks
Verso of backing sheet, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceJohn Rushout, 2nd Baron of Northwick (b. 1770 - d. 1859), Northwick Park, Worcester, and Thirlestane House, Gloucestershire; 1859, by inheritance to his nephew George Rushout, 3rd Baron of Northwick (b. 1811 - d. 1887); 1887, by inheritance to his widow, Elizabeth Augusta Warburton Rushout, Lady Northwick (b. 1832 - d. 1912), Northwick Park; 1912, by inheritance to her grandson, Captain Edward Georges Spencer-Churchill (b. 1876 - d. 1964), Northwick Park; May 28, 1918, sold by Captain Spencer-Churchill, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, lot 224 (4 prints); 1918, purchased from that sale by the MFA through P. & D. Colnaghi and Obach (dealers, London). (Accession Date: May 1, 1918)