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The Birth of the Shunemmite Woman's Son (from the series Elisha and the Shunemmite Woman)
Engraved by: Hans (Jan Baptist I) Collaert (Netherlandish, 1566–1628)
After: Marten de Vos (Netherlandish, 1532–1603)
After: Marten de Vos (Netherlandish, 1532–1603)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 21.3 x 29.3 cm (8 3/8 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession Number69.1011
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish), vol. IV, Hans (Jan Baptist I) Collaert, nos. 5-8 [though there are 6 plates, not 4], p. 211
Signed
not signed
Marks
verso, MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 69.1011
Inscriptionsin plate, within engaved border, lower left: M. de vos inue; Aux . 4 . vents; in margin below engraved border, left: 2./Cijnthea iamq suos nouies contraxerat orbes,/Signaq per totidem Phebus deduxerat ignes.; lower right: Ipsa tumescebant crescentes pondera ventris,/Letaq promissum est enixa puerpera natum.
Provenance1969, gift of Aimee Lamb (b. 1893 - d. 1989), Boston, and Rosamond Lamb (b. 1898 - d. 1989), Boston to the MFA.