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A Hurdy-Gurdy Player

Etched by: Matthäus Merian I (German, 1593–1650)
After: Jacques Bellange (French (Lorraine), about 1575–1616)
Published by: Jacob van der Heyden (Netherlandish, worked Germany, 1573–1645)
about 1615 or after

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 29.6 x 17.2 cm (11 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line Gift of William H. Schab Gallery
Accession Number40.225
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hollstein 460, only state; Wüthrich 94; Thuillier (Bellange) 30 (copy); Walch (Bellange) 21 (copy); Worthen & Reed (Bellange) 27 (copy); Griffiths & Hartley (Bellange) 36 (copy)
Marks Verso of backing sheet, lower left, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceWilliam H. Schab Master Prints and Drawings, Inc., New York; their gift to the MFA May 9, 1940