The Annunciation

Unidentified artist, Italian (Ferrarese), active in 1470–1480

1470–80

Medium/TechniqueEngraving. unique impression on dark cream wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 18.9 x 25.4 cm (7 7/16 x 10 in.)

Credit Line1951 Purchase Fund

Accession number54.576

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPrints

Collections

ProvenanceJoseph Thatcher Clarke (b. 1856 - d. 1920), Harrow, England; May 13, 1921, posthumous Clarke and others sale, Puttick and Simpson, London, lot 80, to Henry Scipio Reitlinger (b. 1885 - d. 1950; cf. Lugt 2274a), London [see note]; February 10, 1954, posthumous Reitlinger sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 101, sold for £2150 to Forrest. 1954, sold by Richard H. Zinser (dealer; b. 1884 - d. 1984), Forest Hills, NY, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 13, 1954)

NOTE: See A. M. Hind, "An Undescribed Italian Engraving of the XVth Century," Burlington Magazine 39 (1921): pp. 216-217.