About the Artwork
The City Gate
between 1600 and 1655
Herman van Swanevelt
1600-1655
Dutch
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 7 1/4 × 11 1/8 inches (18.4 × 28.3 cm) Sheet: 7 5/8 × 11 3/8 inches (19.4 × 28.9 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S1135
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in plate below image, lower left: Herman van Suanevelt [sic] Inventor fecit Inscribed, lower center: a Paris chez Mondhare rue St. Jacques Inscribed, lower right: cum privilegio Regis
Stamp, verso: Scripps 1887 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Provenance
Sept. 1887 , C. J. Meyer (Carlsbad).1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Herman van Swanevelt, The City Gate, between 1600 and 1655, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1135.
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