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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)
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.)
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
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
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.