About the Artwork
Hope
1597
Hendrick Goltzius (Artist) Dutch, 1558-1617 Jacobus Matham (Artist) Dutch, 1571-1631
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 6 × 4 inches (15.2 × 10.2 cm) Sheet: 6 1/8 × 4 1/8 inches (15.6 × 10.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S765.2
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed,in plate, lower left corner of image: 2 Inscribed, in plate, below image: Mœrentes recreo, fit[e] ne t[e]deat [e]gr[e], | Advers[e] pr[e]bens solatia dulceia sortis.
Watermark: [obscured by lower center of image] Stamped, in red and purple, verso: Rijks Prentenkabinet (Lugt 240 and 699) Stamped, verso: Scripps 1886 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
Rijks Prentenkabinet (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
July 1886, (H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Jacobus Matham; after Hendrick Goltzius, Hope, 1597, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S765.2.
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