About the Artwork
Melanchthon
1530
Master I. B.
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German
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 3 3/8 × 2 5/8 inches (8.6 × 6.7 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S756
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, upper right: 15 [artist's monogram] 30
Inscribed, in plate, bottom center: SI DEVS PRO NOBIS | QVIS CONTRA NOS | .P.M. Inscribed, verso: [pencil notations]
Stamp, verso: Scripps 1887 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a]
Provenance
Oct. 1887, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Master I. B., Melanchthon, 1530, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S756.
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