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The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket (Block 6 from a series of 6 , The "large" Power of Women)

Designed by: Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
Blockcutter: Artist unknown
about 1512

Medium/Technique Woodcut
Dimensions Block: 41.6 x 29.2cm (16 3/8 x 11 1/2in.)
Image: 41.7 x 29.2 cm (16 7/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 41.7 x 29.3 cm (16 7/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund, by exchange
Accession Number1975.362
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch (relief) 016, 1st; Hollstein (relief) 89; FK "B. hsn." 16 a; Volbehr 191
State First state
InscriptionsVerso: watermark traced and other slight
ProvenanceSammlung , Dr. B., red stamp (not in L.) verso, surmounted by stamp of Albert [L. or W.] Blum (1882-1952), Switzerland and Short Hills, NJ, black stamp ( Lugt 79b), verso ; purchased MFA Boston, Sept. 10, 1975, (L.282) verso