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Events in the History of the Netherlands, France, Germany, and England, 1535–about 1620


Geschichtsblätter
Historical Prints 1535-1625
Frans Hogenberg (Netherlandish, about 1540–about 1590)
Abraham Hogenberg (Dutch, worked Germany, active 1608–1653)
1570–about 1620

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Overall: 38.5 x 30.3 x 6.8 cm (15 3/16 x 11 15/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild
Accession Number2015.76
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrintsBound sets

Provenance1938, Alphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 - d. 1942) and Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 - d. 1967), Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild by Nazi forces [see note 1]; probably about 1948, returned to Clarice de Rothschild, New York; by descent to her daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); about 1990/1992, given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to members of her family; 2015, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)

NOTES:
[1] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The precise fate of this book during the Nazi era is not known, but it was in the possession of Clarice de Rothschild again following World War II.