Census record · museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Holder
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Place
- Boston, United States
- Accession
- P391
- Title as catalogued
- Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume
- Date as catalogued
- 1638
- Medium as catalogued
- Etching
- State
- Not stated by the institution
- State, verbatim
- Hind 156 ii (implied second state; no separate state field)
- Catalogue references
- Bartsch 020; Hind 156 ii
- Plate
- 135 x 105
- Sheet
- 141 x 110
- Watermark
- —
- Collector marks
- Lugt 1309 (Henry F. Sewall)
- Provenance
- Henry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York, Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA, November 1897.
- Credit line
- Harvey D. Parker Collection - Harvey Drury Parker Fund
- Condition
- —
- Rights
- Not stated
- Checked
- 2026-08-12 — Project — record read directly from the holding institution's own published record
Transcription notes
Dimensions labelled 'Platemark' and 'Sheet' in the record. Retrieved via a real browser session (record served from collections.mfa.org); direct HTTP fetch is Cloudflare-blocked. Cross-check: A search of the full MFA collections database for this title returned exactly one impression of B.20 (P391); the only other 'velvet cap' hit is the Sketch Plate (P732), correctly rejected. Note MFA's uniquely zero-padded 'Bartsch 020' formatting - a census importer must normalise this. API route: None. mfa.org serves a Cloudflare challenge to curl and WebFetch; retrieved by rendering in a browser.
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