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Saint Roch Invoking the Virgin to Stay the Plague

Saint Roch Invoking the Virgin to Stay the Plague, possibly ca. 1646

  • Italian
  • Pietro Testa, Italian, 1611-1650

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10 1/4 × 6 1/2 inches (26 × 16.5 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1146

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Stamp, verso: Scripps 1885 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a]

Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Pietro Testa delin. Inscribed, lower right: Collignon formis Rom | 1646 Inscribed, lower left of image: [illegible pencil anotation]

1885, M. Bruckner. 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian; after Pietro Testa, Saint Roch Invoking the Virgin to Stay the Plague, possibly ca. 1646, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1146.

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