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Charity

(Netherlandish, 1537–1612)
(Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
(Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
about 1559
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsOther (engraved border): 22.2 x 28.8 cm (8 3/4 x 11 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.5 x 29 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit LineMaria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession number30.1078.3
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, beneath the figure of Charity, lower center: CHARITAS; left of center: H. cock excude.; lower right: BRVEGEL. 1559; in plate, in margin below image, lower left to right: SPERES TIBI ACCIDERE QVOD ALTERI ACCIDIT, ITA DEMVM EXCITABERIS AD OPEM FERENDAM/SI SVMPSERIS EIVS ANMVM QVI OPEM TVNC IN MALIS CONSTITVTVS IMPLORAT [Expect what happens to others to happen to you; you will then and not until then be aroused to offer help only if you make your own the feelings of the man who appeals for help in the midst of adversity.]
ProvenanceMay, 1930, C.G. Boerner sale, Leipzig, lot 174; May, 1930, purchased from that sale through Colnaghi (London dealer) by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1930)