About the Artwork
The Grave Diggers Before the Church
between 1626 and 1679
Jan van de Capelle
1626-1679
Dutch
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Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 5 1/2 × 6 7/8 inches (14 × 17.5 cm) Sheet: 5 7/8 × 7 1/8 inches (14.9 × 18.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S555.50
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, lower left of image: Jan van goye
Stamped, verso: Scripps 1895 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
February 1895, 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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Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, vol. 4. Amsterdam, 1951, p. 91, no. 6.
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Jan van de Capelle, The Grave Diggers Before the Church, between 1626 and 1679, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S555.50.
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