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Becanus (Jan van Gorp, also called Goropius)

Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)
1580

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 25 x 17 cm (9 13/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 29.4 x 19.3 cm (11 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6985
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 1861; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1774
Signed on pedestal: .IHW./1580
Marks verso, collector's mark in blue: [?]; collector's mark in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6986; in graphite: A1861; [?]
Inscriptionsin plate, upper left to upper right: IOANNIS GOROPII BECANI EFFIGIES; verso, epitaph in letterpress: [not transcribed]
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897