Paternal Instruction

Gerard ter Borch, Artist Johann Georg Wille, Artist
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Paternal Instruction

1765

Gerard ter Borch (Artist) Dutch, 1617-1681 Johann Georg Wille (Artist) German, 1715-1808

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Plate: 17 1/8 × 13 1/4 inches (43.5 × 33.7 cm) Sheet: 18 1/4 × 14 5/8 inches (46.4 × 37.1 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1258

Public Domain

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Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Et grave en 1765, par J. G. Wille, Graveur du Roy. Inscribed, lower left: Peint par G. Terburg. [sic] Inscribed, lower center: INSTRUCTION PATERNELLE.| [dedication in French to Maria Theresa] Inscribed, in plate above image, upper left: Elfte Platte

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June 13, 1892, Heinrich Klemm and Theodore Grosse Collections Sale (Dresden, Germany).
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Johann Georg Wille; after Gerard ter Borch, Paternal Instruction, 1765, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1258.

Paternal Instruction
Paternal Instruction