June

Hans (Jan Baptist I) Collaert (Netherlandish, 1566–1628)

Joos de Momper, the Younger (Flemish, 1564–1635)

Joannes Galle (Netherlandish, 1600–1676)

Medium/TechniqueEngraving

DimensionsPlatemark: 20.7 x 26.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 25.7 x 33.6 cm (10 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit LineFund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis

Accession number65.586

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InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: CANCER.; in lower margin, lower center: IVNIVS.; lower left: Iunius esse sacer Iunoni fertur; adunca/Herbas in pabulum, foenaqe falce secat,; lower right: Lanigerum tondet pecus, & lanam abluit vndis./Ast operi intento Cancer aduste noces.

Provenance1965, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, to the MFA for £350 [see note]. (Accession Date: May 12, 1965)

NOTE: MFA accession nos. 65.580-65.592 were purchased for this amount.