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November


The Twelve Months of the Solar Year
Adriaen Collaert (Netherlandish, about 1560–1618)
After: Joos de Momper, the Younger (Flemish, 1564–1635)
Published by: Joannes Galle (Netherlandish, 1600–1676)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 21.2 x 26.4 cm (8 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 25.6 x 33.7 cm (10 1/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number65.591
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. IV) 569
State II
Signed Signed in plate, lower left: I. de Momper/inuent; right of lower center: Adrian. Collaert Sculp; lower right: Ioan. Galle excud.
Marks Watermark (?); 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: SAGITTARIVS; in lower margin, lower center: NOVEMBER.; lower left: Suppeditat suibus glandes alimenta Nouember,/Quercum qui solitus stringere verberibus.; lower right: Setigeri mense hoc hyemis pinguescite porci:/Glandibus Arcitenens nil nociturus erit.
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.