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Ornament Panel with a Double-Headed Eagle

(Italian, active c. 1490 – 1520)
about 1490-1520
Medium/TechniqueNiello
DimensionsSheet: 7.2 × 3.3 cm (2 13/16 × 1 5/16 in.)(trimmed within the image)
Credit LineHarvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession numberP944
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceMark Masterman Sykes (b. 1771 - d. 1823; cf. Lugt 1897), London. Joseph Maberly (b. 1763 - d. 1860; cf. Lugt 1845), London; May 26, 1861, and subsequent days, Maberly's sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 363, for £1.1.1 [see note 1]. The Rev. John Griffith (b. 1806 - d. 1885; Lugt 1464), Oxford. 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]. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)

NOTE 1: The print does not bear the mark of either Sykes or Maberly, but the manuscript ledger of Henry Sewall's collection that is preserved in the MFA Archives notes that this print was in both collections.

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.
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