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The Nativity (from the Life of Christ series)
Israhel van Meckenem (German, about 1440/45–1503)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 7.2 x 5.1 cm (2 13/16 x 2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession Number18.694
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs 071 (I/III); Hollstein-Koreny 71(I)
State
I/III
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Verso, collector's stamp in black oval: H.H. [Henry Ralph Mowbray Howard; Lugt 1318]; in graphite: 01692
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 258, sold for £13.10 to Bernard Quaritsch, Ltd., London; about 1912, probably sold by Quaritsch to Henry Ralph Mowbray Howard (b. 1883 - d. 1950; Lugt 1318), London and Cortington, Wiltshire [see note]. 1918, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi and Obach (dealers), London to the MFA for $126.75. (Accession Date: April 5, 2023)
NOTE: Quaritsch's 1912 catalogue, no. 603.
NOTE: Quaritsch's 1912 catalogue, no. 603.