The Town Gate at Gorkum, 17th century

  • Jan Hackaert, Dutch, 1628 - after 1685
  • Clement de Jonghe, Dutch

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 7 7/8 × 8 7/8 inches (20 × 22.5 cm) Sheet: 8 × 9 inches (20.3 × 22.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S566

Signed, in plate, lower left: Joannes Hackaert invent. et. fecit.

Watermark, center right edge: [spiked crown] Stamp, verso: Scripps (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Clement de Ionghe excud. Amst. 1.

November 1887, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Jan Hackaert, The Town Gate at Gorkum, 17th century, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S566.