About the Artwork
Aeneas Sylvius
18th century
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Artist) Dutch, 1606-1669 Thomas Worlidge (Artist) English, 1700-1766
Etching printed in black ink on wove paper
Plate: 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 inches (16.5 × 10.8 cm) Sheet: 8 × 6 1/4 inches (20.3 × 15.9 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S1271
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Markings
Signed, in plate, upper left: T. Worlidge
Inscribed, in plate, lower right: 122 Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: Jan Sylvius | after Rembrant (over; in pencil, verso: Woolidge was the | most successful of the imitators of Rembrandt. | This etching is copied | from one by Rembrandt Inscribed, in pencil, center right margin, verso: B 280 (?) Inscribed, center lower edge verso: H; 31672
Stamped, in purple, verso: JAMES E. SCRIPPS
Provenance
June 1885, N.C. Perkins. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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White. C. and Boon, K.G. Rembrandt's Etchings. Amsterdam, 1969, no. B280, copy B.
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Thomas Worlidge; after Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Aeneas Sylvius, 18th century, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1271.
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