About the Artwork
Mercury
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)
Prints
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Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
35.37.6
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate, upper left: [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, in plate, upper left edge: 6 Inscribed, upper right: MERCVRIVS | [Mercury planetary symbol] Inscribed, in plate, lower left and lower right: [Virgo and Gemini zodiacal symbols]
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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Hans Sebald Beham, Mercury, ca. 1539, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 35.37.6.
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