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Design for a Fountain, with Bacchus on a Goat (plate 35 from Dietterlin's Architectura)
Wendel Dietterlin (German, 1550–1599)
probably between about 1593 and 1598
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Platemark: 24.8 x 18.2 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 25 x 18.4 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 25 x 18.4 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK3769
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (German) 017
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Watermark (yes, but not yet identified); verso, collector's signature in black ink: S.R. Koehler; stamped in purple: S.R.KOEHLER [Lugt 1580]; MFA Koehler Collection stamp, with accession number in ink: 3769 [Lugt 1581]; in graphite: $_.40¢
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower left: 35
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)
NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.
NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.