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Tobias Carrying the Fish, Walking with the Angel

Tobias Carrying the Fish, Walking with the Angel, 1608

  • Adam Elsheimer, German, 1574-1620
  • Hendrik Goudt, Dutch, 1585-1630

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 5 1/4 × 7 1/2 inches (13.3 × 19.1 cm) Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 7/8 inches (14.3 × 20 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

40.21

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Inscribed, in plate, below image, center: [Latin inscription] Inscribed, below inscription, left: AElsheimer | pinxit Inscribed, right: HGoudt sculpt. | Roma 1608

1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hendrik Goudt; after Adam Elsheimer, Tobias Carrying the Fish, Walking with the Angel, 1608, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 40.21.

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