About the Artwork
The Wittevrouwen Gate at Utrecht
1646
Herman Saftleven the Younger
1609-1685
Dutch
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Etching and engraving printed in black ink
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10 5/8 × 9 1/4 inches (27 × 23.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S1063
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate, below image, lower left: [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, in plate below image, lower center: Wittevrouwen-poort. Inscribed, lower right: Ao. 1646
Marks, in ink, verso: W (circled) Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
Carl Rolas du Rosey;October 1887, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Herman Saftleven the Younger, The Wittevrouwen Gate at Utrecht, 1646, etching and engraving printed in black ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1063.
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