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Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis
1612
Adam Elsheimer (Artist) German, 1574-1620 Hendrik Goudt (Artist) Dutch, 1585-1630
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 8 1/8 × 8 5/8 inches (20.6 × 21.9 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S555
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, below image: [Latin inscription] Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [notations]
Stamped, in blue, verso: Josef (Guiseppi) Rocca (Lugt 1204) Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
Josef (Giuseppi) Rocca
Setember 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Fagan, Davis. Handbook for Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. London, 1876, p. 232.
Nagler, G. K. Neues Allemeines Kunstler Lexicon. Munchen, 1835-1852, vol. 10.
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Hendrik Goudt; after Adam Elsheimer, Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis, 1612, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S555.
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