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Ignorance and Mercury: An Allegory of Virtue and Vice

After Andrea Mantegna , Artist Andrea Zoan , Artist
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About the Artwork

Ignorance and Mercury: An Allegory of Virtue and Vice

16th century

After Andrea Mantegna (Artist) Italian, 1431-1506 Andrea Zoan (Artist) Italian, 1475-1505

Engraving in ink on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 21 3/4 × 16 1/4 inches (55.2 × 41.3 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S19

Public Domain

Markings

Inscribed, in plate, lower left edge of image, around figure/tree: VIRTVS | DESERTA Inscribed, in plate, lower left: VIRTV | TI | .S.A.I. Inscribed, in plate, center right edge: VIRTVS COMEVSTA

Marked, watermark outlined in pencil, verso: [W-shaped anchor in circle with star above]

Provenance

1892, sale of Heinrich Klemm & Theodore Grosse collections (Dresden, Germany).
Mrs. James E. Scripps [Harriet J.];
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Hind, A. M. Early Italian Engraving. London, 1948, vol. 5, p. 27, no. 22; vol. VI, (pl. 520).

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Andrea Zoan; after Andrea Mantegna, Ignorance and Mercury: An Allegory of Virtue and Vice, 16th century, engraving in ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S19.

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