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The Birth of the Shunemmite Woman's Son (from the series Elisha and the Shunemmite Woman)

(Netherlandish, 1566–1628)
(Netherlandish, 1532–1603)
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 21.3 x 29.3 cm (8 3/8 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession number69.1011
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ClassificationsPrints
Inscriptionsin plate, within engaved border, lower left: M. de vos inue; Aux . 4 . vents; in margin below engraved border, left: 2./Cijnthea iamq suos nouies contraxerat orbes,/Signaq per totidem Phebus deduxerat ignes.; lower right: Ipsa tumescebant crescentes pondera ventris,/Letaq promissum est enixa puerpera natum.
Provenance1969, gift of Aimee Lamb (b. 1893 - d. 1989), Boston, and Rosamond Lamb (b. 1898 - d. 1989), Boston to the MFA.