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Knight, Death, and the Devil
Thought to be by: Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)
After: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
After: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
1564
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 24.3 x 18.6 cm (9 9/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6946
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 1192; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1484 (II)
Signed
not signed
Marks
watermark [not identified]; verso, collector's stamp in blue: BB [Cabinet Brentano-Birckenstock; Lugt 345]; collector's stamp in black, in palette: JBJ [Rev. J. Burleigh James; Lugt 1425]; collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6946
Inscriptionsin plate, upper left: Æ.15; dated on tablet, lower right: 1564; [below the date is the Dürer monogram, which is probably in ink]
ProvenanceCabinet Brentano-Birckenstock (Vienna and Frankfurt; sale Frankfurt, 18700; Rev. J. Burleigh James (mid 19th century, Knowbury Park, England; sale 1877, London, Sothebys); Henry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897