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Charity

Charity, ca. 1530

  • Master I. B., German

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 3 × 2 inches (7.6 × 5.1 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S758

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Signed, in plate, lower right: [artist's monogram]

Stamp, verso: Scripps 1889 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a]

Inscribed, in plate, upper left: CHARITATIS

May 1889, Hess (Munich, Germany). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Master I. B., Charity, ca. 1530, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S758.

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