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Luna

Hans Sebald Beham German, 1500-1550
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About the Artwork

Luna

ca. 1539

Hans Sebald Beham

1500-1550

German

Unknown

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 1 3/4 × 1 1/8 inches (4.4 × 2.9 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

35.37.7

Public Domain

Markings

Signed and dated, in plate, center right edge: 1539 | [artist's monogram]

Inscribed, in plate, upper left: 7 | LVNA | [Moon symbol Inscribed, lower right: [Cancer zodiacal symbol]

Stamp, in black, verso: A. Firmin-Didot (Lugt 119) Stamp, in brown, verso: A. Freiherr von Lanna (Lugt 2773) Stamp, in brown, verso: P. J. Sachs (Lugt 2091) Stamp, in black, verso: L (Lugt 1702)

Provenance

A. Firmin-Didot (Paris, France);
A. Freiherr von Lanna (Prague);
Paul J. Sachs (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).
1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Hans Sebald Beham, Luna, ca. 1539, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 35.37.7.

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