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An Infant Sleeping on a Cross and Skull

An Infant Sleeping on a Cross and Skull

(Italian, 1575–1642)
17th–mid 17th century
Medium/TechniqueChiaroscuro woodcut, printed from two blocks in brown and black, with some hand touches of white, and some apparent brown watercolor
DimensionsSheet: 8.9 x 12.5 cm (3 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.)(trimmed on, or slightly outside of, the borderline)
Credit LineBequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number1975.424
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsLower left, apparently printed from the line block, the letters "DAECA"(?)
ProvenanceAn unidentified collector (mark not in Lugt); W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 10, 1975
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