Two Martyrs in the Clouds

ca. 1786

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Artist Richard Earlom, Artist John and Josiah Boydell, Publisher

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About the Artwork

Title Two Martyrs in the Clouds

Artwork Date ca. 1786

Makers Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Artist) Italian, 1727-1785 Richard Earlom (Artist) English, 1743 - 1822 John and Josiah Boydell (Publisher) English

Medium Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink on wove paper

Dimensions Plate: 11 5/8 × 9 5/8 inches (29.5 × 24.4 cm) Sheet: 14 1/8 × 11 1/8 inches (35.9 × 28.3 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1S468

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower left: G. B. Cipriani invt. Inscribed, lower center: 14 | Publish'd Feb, 1st" 1786. by John & Josiah Boydell No. 90. Cheapside, London. Inscribed, lower right: Richd. Earlom Sculptsit. Inscribed, in black ink, bottom margin: No. 468 - Two Martyrs in the Clouds. Reproduction of a drawing by Cipriani. | By - Richard Earlom.

Marks Stamp, verso: Scripps [date, 1887, added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)

Provenance

March 1887, Crawcour sale
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Richard Earlom; after Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Two Martyrs in the Clouds, ca. 1786, etching and aquatint printed in brown ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S468.