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Head of an Old Man Wearing a Laurel Wreath

Head of an Old Man Wearing a Laurel Wreath, ca. 1641

Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610-1664

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

Plate: 4 5/8 × 5 7/8 inches (11.7 × 14.9 cm) Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 inches (18.1 × 22.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S127.5

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Etching (printing process)

Wreath (costume accessory)

Head (animal or human component)

Watermark, center of sheet: shield Stamp, verso: Scripps (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) 1887 [date added in ink to the stamp]

In plate, lower left edge: S- D Bella in et fecit; center bottom edge: Auec priuilege du Roy; lower right corner: 22

(dealer, Brussels, Belgium)

September 1887, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Stefano della Bella, Head of an Old Man Wearing a Laurel Wreath, ca. 1641, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S127.5.