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Saint Jerome in His Study

Hieronymus Hopfer (German, active about 1528–1550)
After: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
after 1514

Medium/Technique Etching on iron
Dimensions Sheet: 22 x 15.5 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP2110
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 018
DescriptionCopy in reverse of Albrecht Dürer's Saint Jerome in His Study (Bartsch 60).
Signed Signed in plate, on plaque, lower left: I H [with hallmark]
Marks Watermark (yes, but not yet identified); verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA Parker stamp in purple, with accession number in ink: 2110.; in graphite: [?]
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note 1]. (Acquisition Date: October 21, 1897)

NOTE:

[1] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.