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Cain and Abel
early 17th–mid 17th century
Medium/Technique
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in light brown, brown, gray-brown, and black
Dimensions
Sheet: 38.5 x 25.1 cm (15 3/16 x 9 7/8 in.)(trimmed to, or slightly into, the borderline)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1986.124
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Not in Bartsch
Marks
Verso, bottom right, stamped in gray ink, an unidentified collector's mark; verso, bottom right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)
ProvenanceAn unidentified collector (mark not in Lugt). W. G. Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; 1986, bequest of W. G. Russell Allen to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 26, 1986)