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The Flood (from the Genesis series, no. 21)

Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 4.4 x 6.6 cm (1 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 4.5 x 7 cm (1 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6790
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 078; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 21 (II)
Signed not signed
Marks verso, MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6790
Inscriptionsin plate, within image, upper left: 21; below image: Consumptaqz est omnis caro que moue:/batur super terram.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897