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Adam Picking Wheat for Bread and Eve Spinning (from the Genesis series. no. 11)
Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 4.2 x 6.5 cm (1 5/8 x 2 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 4.5 x 6.8 cm (1 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 4.5 x 6.8 cm (1 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6780
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 068; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 11 (II)
Signed
within image, lower center: .IOHA.W.IN.ET.EX.
Marks
verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6780
Inscriptionsin plate, within image, upper left: 11; below image: In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane tuo
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897