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

(Netherlandish, 1566–1628)
(Netherlandish, 1532–1603)
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 20.8 x 29.2 cm (8 3/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession number69.1012
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ClassificationsPrints
Inscriptionsin plate, in margin below engraved border, lower left: 3/Paruulus ad Patrem properans, du forte per estys,/Spicea dum grauidas diffundit Messis aristas.; lower right: Confestim tener heu morbo tentatur acuto,/Inq sinu matris vitales deserit auras.
Provenance1969, gift of Aimee Lamb (b. 1893 - d. 1989), Boston, and Rosamond Lamb (b. 1898 - d. 1989), Boston to the MFA.