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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)

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
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.