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From the Life of Christ series
The Circumcision
From the Life of Christ series
Israhel van Meckenem (German, about 1440/45–1503)
undated
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 7.1 x 5 cm (2 13/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession Number18.695
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs 072, i / iv; Bartsch 007; Geisberg 31; Hollstein-Koreny 72 (I)7
State
I/IV
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Verso, the collector's stamp of Henry Ralph Mowbray Howard (Lugt 1318)
InscriptionsVerso, in graphite: 01693
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 259, sold for £11 to Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., London; about 1912, probably sold by Quaritch 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: Quaritch's 1912 catalogue, no. 604.
NOTE: Quaritch's 1912 catalogue, no. 604.