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Fire

(Dutch, about 1550 – about 1615)
(Netherlandish, 1519 or 1520–1570)
(Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
1568
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsPlatemark: 15.3 × 22.9 cm (6 × 9 in.)
Sheet: 17 × 24.9 cm (6 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit LineStephen Bullard Memorial Fund
Accession number2022.60.4
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn plate, at lower left: F. floris inventor In plate, at lower right: H. Cock. excud 1568. In plate, at lower center: Ignea vis summa sedem sibi legit in arce.
ProvenancePossibly Archibald Stirling, of Keir and Cawder [see note]. April 1996, sold by Olimpia Theodoli (dealer), London, to the Hearn Family Trust, New York; consigned by the Hearn Family Trust to Susan Schulman Fine Art, Inc., New York; 2022, sold by Susan Schulman Fine Art to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 16, 2022)

NOTE: According to Olimpia Theodoli at the time the print was sold.