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Woman Contemplating a Skull

(Italian, 1558/59–1629)
(Italian, 1552–1606)
1591
Medium/TechniqueChiaroscuro woodcut, printed from six blocks in beige-pink, light pink, medium pink, gray pink, dark gray pink, and black
DimensionsSheet: 34 x 21.7 cm (13 3/8 x 8 9/16 in.)(trimmed to, or slightly outside of, the borderline at the top and sides, and trimmed to the lower edge of the inscription at the bottom)
Credit LineGift of William Norton Bullard
Accession number23.958
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
Provenance1923, gift of Dr. William Norton Bullard (b. 1853 - d. 1931), Boston, to the MFA (Accession Date: April 1, 1923)
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