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The Miracle of Saint Mark Freeing the Slave

(Netherlandish, 1571–1631)
(Italian (Venetian), about 1518–1594)
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 42.6 × 58.8 cm (16 3/4 × 23 1/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession numberB2591
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in lower margin, left: Diuino quondam Scuus commotus amore/Inuito domino corpus, Sacrumqz Sepulchrum/Accedit Sancti Marci: mox inde reuersum; center: Torqueri iratus iubet, affligiqz magister./Sed frustra. nam nulla pio tormenta nocebant./Stipitibus, ferroqz Suum perdente rigorem.; right: Talia conspiciens, se deliquisse fatetur/In seruum innocuum dominus, veniamqz precatus/Ipse etiam inuisit sacri penetralio busti. C. Schoneus
ProvenancePeter Vischer-Sarasin (b. 1751 - d. 1823; Lugt 2115 and 2116), Schloss Wildentein, near Basel; 1823, by inheritance to his son, Peter Vischer-Passant (b. 1779 - d. 1852) Schloss Wildenstein, near Basel. William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899; Lugt 207), Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)