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Labor and Industry (from The Rewards of Labor, Industry, Practise and Art series, 1st of 4 plates)
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
1582
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 x 14 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1707
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 110; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. VIII) 122; Leesberg (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Goltzius, part II) 199 (I/I)
State
I/I
Signed
Signed in plate, lower right: Henricus Goltzius inuet./et sculptor.Inpressum.Har,/lemi
Marks
No watermark; verso, MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, in purple, with accession number in ink: 1707; in graphite: 10; Henri Goltzius/B. III. 37 110 in series 110-13./Work & Diligence/Dutuit IV. 423.110
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, above figures: Labor; Diligentia; lower left, within engraved border: .I. .1582.; in margin below engraved border, lower left: Cum labor. & Socias iungunt Industria aplmas,/Ars quoqe Palladiam meditatur pectore curam; lower right: Daermen geen arbeit spaert noch gheen Diligentie/Sietmen dat Conste baert diuersche Inuentie.
Provenance1899, bequest of William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)