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The Nativity

Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)
After: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
1566

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 18.3 x 11.9 cm (7 3/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6794
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 152 (I); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 251
Signed in plate, lower left, on stone step: IH. W. Æ/16.16.1566
Marks no watermark; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6794; in graphite: gn[?]/25793/L
Inscriptionsin plate, on hanging tablet, upper left: 1504/[Dürer monogram]
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897