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Elisha Restores Life to the Son of the Shunemite Woman (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 Platemark: 20.7 x 8.5 cm (8 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 26.9 x 36.5 cm (10 9/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession Number69.1015
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 in plate, lower right: HC.F
Marks no watermark; recto, in lower margin, in old ink: Elijah restoring the child to life; verso, MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 69.1015
Inscriptionsin plate, within engraved border, lower left: M. de vos.inue. Aux . 4 . vents; in lower margin within platemarks, at left: 6/ Protinus ingressus tunc est Sunamitidos edes,/Membraq sopite videt vt sine lumine vite; right: Extincti pueri, componens arubus artus,/Restituit viue puerum vt numinis, aure.
Provenance1969, gift of Aimee Lamb (b. 1893 - d. 1989), Boston, and Rosamond Lamb (b. 1898 - d. 1989), Boston to the MFA.