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Evening on the Nile


Abend am Nil
Wilhelm Gentz (German, 1822 – 1890)
Printer: Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Leipzig
German
1891

Medium/Technique Photogravure
Dimensions Sheet: 21.4 × 29 cm (8 7/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession Number98.1927
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Lower left, in plate: W. Gentz
Marks Verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Rosa Koehler (Lugt 1580)
InscriptionsLower left, in plate: W. Gentz pinx
Lower right, in plate: Photogravure H. Riffarth, Berlin
Lower center, in plate: Abend am Nil
Bottom left, in plate: Verlag v. E.A. Seeman in Leipzig
Bottom right, in plate: Druck v. F.A. Brockhaus in Leipzig
Verso, center, in graphite: Leitschift. / 1891. / II, 8. / K.
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 14, 2023)

NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.