Night

Adriaen Collaert (Netherlandish, about 1560–1618)

Marten de Vos (Netherlandish, 1532–1603)

Medium/TechniqueEngraving

DimensionsPlatemark: 20.6 x 26 cm (8 1/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 27.6 x 35.7 cm (10 7/8 x 14 1/16 in.)

Credit LineFund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis

Accession number65.579

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ClassificationsPrints

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InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: NOX; in margin below image, lower left: NOX nigrans coecis obducit cunc Ta tenebris,/Et nugas, Somnos, Somnia, Spectra fouet.; lower right: Quælibet ad mortis tendunt animalia noctem./Cum Puero Iuuenis Decrepitusq perit./Corn . Kis . Duffl .; lower left: 4.

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.