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The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (from the Genesis series, no. 8)

Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 4.3 x 6.4 cm (1 11/16 x 2 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 4.6 x 6.8 cm (1 13/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6777
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 065; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 8 (II)
Signed within image, lower center: .IOHA.W.INVE.ET.F.CVM.GR.PRI
Marks verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6777
Inscriptionsin plate, within image, upper right: 8; below image: Vocem tuam audiui in Paradÿso/et timui.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897