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The Visitation (from the Life of Christ series)
Israhel van Meckenem (German, about 1440/45–1503)
undated
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 6.8 x 5 cm (2 11/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by John B. Howe
Accession Number18.693
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs 069, i / ii; Hollstein-Koreny 69, i / ii
State
I/II
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Verso, the collector's stamp of Henry Ralph Mowbray Howard (Lugt 1318)
InscriptionsVerso, in graphite: 118; C1696
ProvenanceMid-19th century, Henry Huth (b. 1815 - d. 1878), London and Wykehurst Park, Sussex; by descent to his son, Alfred Henry Huth (b. 1850 - d. 1910), Fosbury Manor, Wiltshire; July 6, 1911, Huth sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, London, lot 257, sold for £7.10 to P. & D. Colnaghi and Obach (dealers), London, for Henry Ralph Mowbray Howard (b. 1883 - d. 1950; Lugt 1318), London and Cortington, Wiltshire. 1918, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi and Obach to the MFA for $126.75. (Accession Date: April 5, 2023)