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(Netherlandish, about 1560–1618)
(Netherlandish, 1532–1603)
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsPlatemark: 20.5 x 26 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 27.6 x 35.4 cm (10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Credit LineFund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession number65.578
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: VESPERA.; in lower margin, lower left: VESPERA adest præceps: pars almj extrema diei/Ad cænam & somnum corpora lassa voat.; lower right: Vergit ad Occasum quicquid prouênit ab Ortu:/Fitq Senex tandem, qui Puer ante fuit./Corn. Kis. Dussl.
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.