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Frontispiece to Thomas Hariot's The Brief and True Report of the Newfoundland of Virginia
Adam and Eve
Frontispiece to Thomas Hariot's The Brief and True Report of the Newfoundland of Virginia
about 1590
Medium/Technique
Engraving with hand coloring
Dimensions
Plate: 24.1 x 19.3 cm (9 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 33 x 23.1 cm (13 x 9 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 33 x 23.1 cm (13 x 9 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Lloyd and Vivian Hawes Collection
Accession Number2000.723
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein 001; Wurzbach 1; Le Blanc 1
DescriptionThe MFA has a second impression from the same plate, without letterpress on verso (accession number P2661).
Signed
In plate, left of lower center: Iodocus a Winghe in
In plate, at center right: Theodore de Bry fe
In plate, at center right: Theodore de Bry fe
InscriptionsIn plate, left of lower center: Iodocus a Winghe in
In plate, at center right: Theodore de Bry fe
Verso: [letterpress]
In plate, at center right: Theodore de Bry fe
Verso: [letterpress]
ProvenanceLloyd and Vivian Hawes, Wellesley, Massachusettes; 2000, bequest of Vivian Hawes to the MFA.