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The Personification of Amsterdam Riding in Neptune's Chariot

The Personification of Amsterdam Riding in Neptune's Chariot

(Dutch, 1631–1708)
1701
Medium/TechniqueEtching
DimensionsPlatemark: 19.8 x 26 cm (7 13/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Image: 19 x 25.4 cm (7 1/2 x 10 in.)
Credit LineHarvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession number97.1250.3
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn plate, l.l.: L. Bakhuizen fecit et exc. cum Privil. ord. Holland et West-Frisie In plate, below image: Zoo bouwt men hier aan't Scheepryk y De Moerbalk van den Staat en Steeden Ten besten van't gemeen en Leeden Van de Indiaansche Maatschappy: Zoo brengt men peerlen, wyd van't een in't ander Landt; Daar Kristus Leerm geleert, gesticht werd, en geplant. Ludolf Bakhuizen. In brown ink, recto, u.l.: 91680
ProvenancePossibly Joseph Maberly (b. 1783 - d. 1860), London [see note 1]. Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: April 11, 2022)

NOTES:

[1] A note on the mat, transcribed from an earlier mount, states: "Probably all of this series came from Joseph Maberly's collection, according to Mr. Sewall."

[2] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized in 1897, one year after Sewall's death.