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Temperance (from a series of The Virtues series, one of seven plates)

(Dutch, 1558–1617)
(Netherlandish, 1571–1631)
1597
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsImage: 13.1 × 10 cm (5 3/16 × 3 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 14.3 × 10 cm (5 5/8 × 3 15/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession numberB2590.2
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower margin:Nec mihi delicie grate, nec fæda voluptas;/Contemno luxum, vili conyenta paratu.
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899; Lugt 207), Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)