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Adam and Eve Mourning the Death of Abel (from the series The Story of Adam and Eve)
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
1529
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16.1 × 11.6 cm (6 5/16 × 4 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP8715
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 006; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish) 6 (I/III); Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 6 (Ic/III)
State
I(c)/III
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, upper center: 1529/L [in reverse]
Marks
No watermark; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry Foster Sewall, Lugt 1309; MFA stamp; in graphite: H.F.P. Coll,/8715; in graphite: MFA [underlined]; Dupl.; B. 6; in ink: March 1922
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)