The Fall of Babylon (The Apocalypse, Chapter 18)
Jean Duvet
(French, 1485–1561)
about 1645-1655
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 30.1 × 21.2 cm (11 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.)(trimmed within the platemark; trimmed around the semi-circular borderline at the top)
Credit LineSpecial Print Fund
Accession numberM27841
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ProvenanceJohn Rushout, 2nd Baron of Northwick (b. 1770 - d. 1859), Northwick Park, Worcester, and Thirlestane House, Gloucestershire; 1859, by inheritance to his nephew George Rushout, 3rd Baron of Northwick (b. 1811 - d. 1887); 1887, by inheritance to his widow, Elizabeth Augusta Warburton Rushout, Lady Northwick (b. 1832 - d. 1912), Northwick Park; 1912, by inheritance to her grandson, Captain Edward Georges Spencer-Churchill (b. 1876 - d. 1964), Northwick Park; May 28, 1918, sold by Captain Spencer-Churchill, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, lot 224 (4 prints); 1918, purchased from that sale by the MFA through P. & D. Colnaghi and Obach (dealers, London). (Accession Date: May 1, 1918)
