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Landscape with Abraham and Isaac on the Way to Sacrifice (from the series Landscapes with Biblical and Mythological Scenes)


Abraham and Isaac Going to the Sacrifice
Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
After: Matthijs Cock (Netherlandish, about 1509–before 1548)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
about 1551 - before 1558

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 22.5 x 31 cm (8 7/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number63.2797
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. IV) 008; Riggs 38
Signed Signed in plate, lower right: Cock fe
Marks No watermark; verso, in graphite: 62; 51/6; 174.; A/g; Zn525; collector's stamp in blue: crown over FB [Franz Baumgartner?; Lugt 975]; and other marks difficult to decipher
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower right: Abraham fily immolatti/onem parat cock fe
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1963, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession date: December 30, 1963)