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Saint Philip Benizzi of the Servites Punishing the Blasphemers, ca. 1582

  • Cherubino Alberti, Italian, 1553-1615
  • Andrea del Sarto, Italian, 1486-1530

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 22 3/4 × 19 3/8 inches (57.8 × 49.2 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S2

Inscribed, in plate, bottom margin: [twelve lines of text divided into four stanzas] Inscribed, in center bottom margin: [dedication plate includes artist and date] Inscribed, lower left of image: Cum Privilegio Summi Pontificis

Sept. 1887, C. J. Meyer (Carlsbad). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Cherubino Alberti; after Andrea del Sarto, Saint Philip Benizzi of the Servites Punishing the Blasphemers, ca. 1582, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S2.