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Temperance (from the series The Seven Virtues, plate 7 of 7)
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
1530
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16.3 x 11 cm (6 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP8807
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 133; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. X) 133 (II of IV); Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 133 (III/III)
State
III/III
Signed
Signed in plate, lower right: L
Marks
No watermark; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; completely faded MFA Harvey D. Parker stamp [Lugt 1868], with accession number in ink: 8807; in graphite: 133
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower center: TEMPERANCIA; lower right: 6
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.