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The Flood (from the Genesis series, no. 20)

Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 4.4 x 6.7 cm (1 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 4.6 x 6.9 cm (1 13/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6789
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 077; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 20 (II)
Signed not signed
Marks verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6789
Inscriptionsin plate, within image, upper left: 20; below image: Aquæ diluug inundauerunt super terram.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897