Itinerant Musicians, ca. 1763

  • Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German, 1712-1774

Etching printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Plate: 6 7/8 × 4 5/8 inches (17.5 × 11.7 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 3/4 inches (34.9 × 27.3 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S364.14

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in plate, lower left: Dietricy

Stamped, verso: Scripps (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)

Inscribed, in ink, lower left margin: 15 Inscribed, along lower edge: No 364. One of (17) recent-impressions from Dietricy's plates.

December 1885, Kissam sale. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, Itinerant Musicians, ca. 1763, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S364.14.