About the Artwork
Pieter Cornelisz Hooft
17th century
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1624-1685
Dutch
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Stipple engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 11 × 7 7/8 inches (27.9 × 20 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S718
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in plate above image, upper edge: P. C. HOOFT. Inscribed, below image, lower edge: ALTER TACITUS. | OPUS MALLEI PER IANUM LUTMA.
Watermark, large device obscured by center of image Stamped, verso: Scripps 1889 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added to the stamp]
Provenance
June 1889, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany).Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Janus, The Younger Lutma, Pieter Cornelisz Hooft, 17th century, stipple engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S718.
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