Collection The Visitation

The Visitation

Francesco Salviati, Artist Giorgio Ghisi, Artist Antonio Lafreri, Publisher
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About the Artwork

The Visitation

ca. 1540

Francesco Salviati (Artist) Italian, 1510-1563 Giorgio Ghisi (Artist) Italian, 1520-1582 Antonio Lafreri (Publisher) Italian

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Image: 12 3/8 × 19 1/2 inches (31.4 × 49.5 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 19 3/4 inches (31.4 × 50.2 cm)

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Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund

F1983.14

Public Domain

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Signed, on plate, lower right, on small placque: GE OR | GIUS | MNTUA | NVS | .F.

Inscribed, on plate, bottom center, under image: ANT ' LAFRERII Inscribed, upper right, in tablet on building: - FRAN: | SALVIATI | .IN: Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, upper right: 20 Inscribed, lower right: [illegible marking] Inscribed, across lower center, right half: AB 2336/2K E Inscribed, across lower center, right half: La Vierge Saluant...Elisabeth

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1983-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Mussari, Stefania. Incisori Mantovani del Cinquecento. Rome, 1980, no. 198.

Bulletin of the DIA 61, no. 3 (1982-1983): p. 16 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Giorgio Ghisi; after Francesco Salviati, The Visitation, ca. 1540, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, F1983.14.

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