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The Twelve Months of the Solar Year
Hans (Jan Baptist I) Collaert (Netherlandish, 1566–1628)
After: Joos de Momper, the Younger (Flemish, 1564–1635)
Published by: Joannes Galle (Netherlandish, 1600–1676)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 20.5 x 26.3 cm (8 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 25.7 x 33.7 cm (10 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number65.587
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. IV) 565
State II
Signed Signed in plate, left of lower center: Iodocus de/Momer inu.; lower center: Ioan. Collaert Sculp.; right of lower center: Ioan. Galle excud.
Marks Watermark (not identified); MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 65.584; oval turquise stamp, filled in with blue ink, probably Lugt 4073 (mark not identified)
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: LEO.; in lower margin, lower center: IVLIVS.; lower left: Iulius Oenotrij sortitus nomen Iulj,/Curua maturas falce metit segetes:; lower right: Colligit & religat Cereales mergite culmos:/Æstiferi cum Sol signa Leonis habet.
Provenance1965, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, to the MFA for £350 [see note]. (Accession Date: May 12, 1965)

NOTE: MFA accession nos. 65.580-65.592 were purchased for this amount.