Advanced Search 
Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyard to King Ahab (from the series The "Small" Power of Women, block 5 of 6)
Designed by: Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
Blockcutter: Artist unknown
Publisher: Doen Pieterszoon, Amsterdam
Blockcutter: Artist unknown
Publisher: Doen Pieterszoon, Amsterdam
1516–19
Medium/Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
Inner Image: 23.9 x 16.9 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 35 x 22.9 cm (13 3/4 x 9 in.)
Sheet: 35 x 22.9 cm (13 3/4 x 9 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP19209
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (relief) 011; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. X) 11 (II/II) (with ornamental frame and Dutch text); Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 185 (IIa/II)
State
II/II
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Watermark: hand; verso, collector's stamp in red ink: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall, Lugt 1309]; faded MFA Parker Collection stamp with accession number in black ink: 19209; in graphite: fH; B.11-; B-7-p 441
InscriptionsWithin tablet, lower center, in moveable type: Naboth ende Iesabe. E/ Iesabel Sprache....[6 lines of various Biblical texts]
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, acquired by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.