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Abraham Going to Sacrifice His Son Isaac


Abraham and Isaac
Designed by: Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
Blockcutter: Unidentified artist, Netherlandish, 16th century
1517–19

Medium/Technique Woodcut
Dimensions Image: 28.2 x 21.1 cm (11 1/8 x 8 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 28.3 x 21.1 cm (11 1/8 x 8 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number66.1080
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch (relief) 003; Hollstein (relief) 3, undescribed; Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 187 (I)
State I
Signed Not signed
Marks Watermark: small shield with lilly; verso, in graphite: 89751; c.16234; 9; MFA stamp (Lugt 282) with accession number in graphite: 66.1080
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1966, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 30, 1966)