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The Ball
Master MZ (German, active about 1500)
1500
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 22 × 31.3 cm (8 11/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.7 × 32 cm (8 15/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 22.7 × 32 cm (8 15/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP2137
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 013; Lehrs 17 (I/I)
State
I/I
Signed
Signed in plate, lower center: MZ; dated in plate, left of upper center: 1500
Marks
Watermark: Augsburg arms with grapes and double H; verso: collector's stamp in black ink: WBS [William Bell Scott; Lugt 2607]; in black ink, in script: From Holloway 1888 £7.7; in graphite: a/a/-; completely faded MFA Parker stamp [Lugt 1870], with accession number in black ink: 2137
InscriptionsDated in plate, left of upper center: 1500
ProvenanceWiliam Bell Scott (b. 1811 - d. 1890), London; April 25, 1885, his sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, lot 803. Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1897, purchased by the MFA. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)