Having Given the Laws, He Choses Twelve Bodyguards and a Hundred Men Who Will

1573

Giovanni Battista Fontana Italian, 1524 - 1587

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Title Having Given the Laws, He Choses Twelve Bodyguards and a Hundred Men Who Will

Artwork Date 1573

Artist Giovanni Battista Fontana

Life Dates 1524 - 1587

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 5 3/8 × 7 inches (13.7 × 17.8 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. 09.1S495.7

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Signed In plate, lower right of image: Battista / Fontana

Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, above image: LEGIBVS VRBI DATIS DVODECIM STIPATORES ELIGIT GENTVMQ Inscribed, below image: P(A)TRES CONSTITVIT QVI SENATORES POSTEA DICTI Inscribed, lower right margin: ii

Marks Stamp, in black, verso: Baron H. A. von Derschau (Lugt 2510) One stamp in black, two stamps in brown, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606, 2922 and variation of 234)

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Baron Hans Albrecht von Derschau (Nuremberg, Germany);
November 1890, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Berlin, Germany).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

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