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Hope (from the series The Seven Virtues, plate 2 of 7)
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
1530
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 16.4 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Platemark: 16.4 x 10.8 cm (6 7/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 16.4 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Platemark: 16.4 x 10.8 cm (6 7/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 16.4 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP8801
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio)128; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. X) 128; Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 128 (Ib/III)
State
Ib/III
Signed
Signed in plate, lower right: L
Marks
Watermark: gothic p; recto, lower right, in graphite: 2; verso, collector's stamp in red ink: H.F.S. [Henry Foster Sewall, Lugt 1309]; much faded MFA Parker stamp [Lugt 1868] in purple ink with accession number in black ink: 8801; in graphite: 128
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower right: SPES
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.