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Large River Landscape with a Town

Etched by: Joannes van Doetecum (Netherlandish, active 1554–about 1600)
and: Lucas van Doetecum (Netherlandish, active 1554–about 1584)
After: Hans Bol (Netherlandish, 1534–1593)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
1562

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Platemark: 14.3 x 40.1 cm (5 5/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 16.4 x 40.5 cm (6 7/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP8956
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. IV, Cock) 5; Riggs 5; Nalis (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Van Doetecum family, part II), 233 (I/I)
State I/I
Signed Not signed
Marks Watermark (yes, but not yet identified); recto, lower right, in pencil: 25; MFA stamp in purple, with accession number in ink: 8956
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower left: H. Cock excu. 1562
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note 1]. (Acquisition Date: October 21, 1897)

NOTE:

[1] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.