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Ceres Mocked by Stellio
Dutch
undated
Medium/Technique
Etching
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP9134
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein 02; Andresen 1
Signed
At lower left, in image, in plate: C. van Mander
Marks
Verso, in black ink, the collector's mark of Charles Howard Hodges (Lugt 552)
Verso, in red ink, the collector's mark of Henry Foster Sewall (Lugt 1309)
Verso, in red ink, the collector's mark of Henry Foster Sewall (Lugt 1309)
InscriptionsAt lower left, in image, in plate: C. van Mander fecit
Verso, at center, in graphite: B fo Kh [?] no.1948
Verso, at lower margin, in graphite: Charles Hodges
Verso, at lower right, in brown ink: 75
Verso, at center, in graphite: B fo Kh [?] no.1948
Verso, at lower margin, in graphite: Charles Hodges
Verso, at lower right, in brown ink: 75
ProvenanceCharles Howard Hodges (b. 1764 - d. 1837; Lugt 552), Amsterdam. Carl Schöffer (b. 1841 - d. 1915; cf. Lugt 3009), Amsterdam; May 30, 1893, Carl Schöffer sale, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, lot 507, sold for Fl. 5.25 to "M." [see note 1] Henry 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 2].
NOTE 1: The print does not bear Schöffer's mark, but the manuscript ledger of Henry Sewall's collection preserved in the MFA Archives notes that this print came from that collection.
NOTE 2: Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized in 1897, one year after his death.
NOTE 1: The print does not bear Schöffer's mark, but the manuscript ledger of Henry Sewall's collection preserved in the MFA Archives notes that this print came from that collection.
NOTE 2: Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized in 1897, one year after his death.