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The Bearing of the Cross
The Bearing of the Cross

The Bearing of the Cross

Giovanni Battista Fontana (Italian, about 1524–1587)
Domenico Campagnola (Italian, 1500–1564)
Medium/TechniqueEngraving and etching
DimensionsSheet: 40.7 x 65.5 cm (16 x 25 13/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in honor of Malcolm Rogers
Accession number2014.1646
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceBetween the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Naples, Florida; 2014, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 29, 2014)
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Image Not Available for The Smoking Fire (Plate VI of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
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