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Coat of Arms with a Skull

Attributed to: Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)
After: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 21.6 x 15.8 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 23.5 x 17.5 cm (9 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6944
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 1191; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1485 (I)
State I
Signed not signed
Marks verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: P6944; in graphite: xxghy
Inscriptionsin plate, copy of Dürer's monogram, with date on rock: 1503
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897