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A Ship Steering to the Right
Master W [with the Key] (Netherlandish, 15th century)
1465-1490
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 16.6 x 13.4 cm (6 9/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 26.6 x 18 cm (10 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.6 x 18 cm (10 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund and Gift of Mrs. T. J. Coolidge
Accession Number28.1092
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs 034 (I/I)
Signed
Signed in plate, upper right: W [+]
Marks
Verso, in graphite: 49
ProvenanceProbably about 1500, added to a bound collection of prints known as Codice Trivulziano 2143 (fol. 2) [see note]. By 1818, Marchese Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (b. 1776 – d. 1831), Milan; by descent to his great-grandson, Luigi Alberico Trivulzio (b. 1868 – d. 1938), Milan; March 1928, the codex was sold by Luigi Alberico Trivulzio and the prints dispersed. 1928, sold by P. and D. Colnaghi, London, to the MFA for $2882. (Accession Date: October 1, 1928)
NOTE: On the history of the codex, see Alessia Alberti, “Alle origini del collezionismo di stampe. Un esempio del tempo di Leonardo: il codice Trivulziano 2143,” Rassegna di Studi e di Notizie 2018-2019, pp. 287-334.
NOTE: On the history of the codex, see Alessia Alberti, “Alle origini del collezionismo di stampe. Un esempio del tempo di Leonardo: il codice Trivulziano 2143,” Rassegna di Studi e di Notizie 2018-2019, pp. 287-334.