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Gorgo Dissuading His Son Cleomenes from the Warlike Councils of Aristagorus
18th and 19th century
Franz Wrenk
1766-1830
German
Unknown
Mezzotint print in brown ink on wove paper
Plate: 18 1/8 × 21 3/8 inches (46 × 54.3 cm) Sheet: 20 1/4 × 27 3/8 inches (51.4 × 69.5 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S1274
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Markings
Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower right: Fr: Wrenck sculpt. Inscribed, lower left: Caugig Gorilianus pinxit Inscribed, lower center: Gorgo dissuadant son Pere Cleomene des Conseils [ ]elliqueux d'Aristagoras. | a Vienne chez Artaria et Comp. Inscribed, lower right: Herodot. Livre V. Inscribed, on label attached to verso: [title in German] Inscribed, in pencil, on verso: [notations]
Provenance
September 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad) Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Franz Wrenk, Gorgo Dissuading His Son Cleomenes from the Warlike Councils of Aristagorus, 18th and 19th century, mezzotint print in brown ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1274.
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