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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1874,0808.1064
Description: Vanitas still-life (memento mori); a skull resting on a book with an extinguished candle at right in a niche Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: Wallerant Vaillant
School/style: Dutch
Production date: 1660-1675
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 222 millimetres; Width: 165 millimetres
Curator's comments: C.Ackley, 'Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exh. cat. 1981, no. 191.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (157.I)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Charles Francis Arnold Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Hugh Howard
Acquisition date: 1874
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1874,0808.1064

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