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(Netherlandish, about 1560–1618)
(Netherlandish, 1532–1603)
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsPlatemark: 20.4 x 25.8 cm (8 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 27.6 x 35.8 cm (10 7/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
Credit LineFund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession number65.577
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: MERIDIES.; in lower margin, lower left: Ecce, MERI Mediusve DIES præferuidus, Ortum/Inter & Occasum, viuida membra mouet.; lower right: Hinc discat duros Iuuenis tolerare labores:/Ne luxu ætatem desidiaq terat./Corn. Kis. Duffl.; lower left: 2.
ProvenanceUnidentified collector. 1965, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, to the MFA for £190 [see note]. (Accession Date: May 12, 1965)

NOTE: MFA accession nos. 65.576-65.579 were purchased for this amount.