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God Creates Eve (from the Genesis series, no. 5)

Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 4.3 x 6.2 cm (1 11/16 x 2 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 4.5 x 6.5 cm (1 3/4 x 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6775
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 063; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 6 (II)
Signed within image, lower center: IOH.W.IN
Marks verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6775
Inscriptionsin plate, within image, upper right: 6; Aedificauit costam quam tulerat de/Adam in mulierem.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897