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Illustration from "Paradise Lost"
Belgian
19th century
Medium/Technique
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.7 × 20.4 cm (10 1/2 × 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK6088
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionFrom a washed drawing on block.
Signed
Lower left, in image: G. Dore
Marks
Verso, center right, stamped in violet ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Rosa Koehler (Lugt 1580)
Verso, lower right, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Koehler Collection (Lugt 1581)
Verso, lower right, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Koehler Collection (Lugt 1581)
InscriptionsLower center, in letterpress: "Me miserable ! which way shall I fly / Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ?" / -Paradise Lost, Book IV., lines 73,74.
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)
NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.
NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.