Dog at Play

1642

Jan Fyt, Artist Theodor van, II Merlen, Publisher

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Title Dog at Play

Artwork Date 1642

Makers Jan Fyt (Artist) Flemish, 1611-1661 Theodor van, II Merlen (Publisher) Flemish, 1609-1672

Medium Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

Dimensions Plate: 6 7/8 × 9 3/8 inches (17.5 × 23.8 cm) Sheet: 7 × 9 1/2 inches (17.8 × 24.1 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1S504.8

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Signed Signed and dated, in plate, lower right of image: Io FYT 1642 F 7

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

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November 1887, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Standing Horse and Reclining Peasant

Jan van Aken

17th century

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