Aeneas Sylvius, 18th century

  • Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669
  • Thomas Worlidge, English, 1700-1766

Etching printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Plate: 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 inches (16.5 × 10.8 cm) Sheet: 8 × 6 1/4 inches (20.3 × 15.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1271

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in plate, upper left: T. Worlidge

Stamped, in purple, verso: JAMES E. SCRIPPS

Inscribed, in plate, lower right: 122 Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: Jan Sylvius | after Rembrant (over; in pencil, verso: Woolidge was the | most successful of the imitators of Rembrandt. | This etching is copied | from one by Rembrandt Inscribed, in pencil, center right margin, verso: B 280 (?) Inscribed, center lower edge verso: H; 31672

June 1885, N.C. Perkins. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

White. C. and Boon, K.G. Rembrandt's Etchings. Amsterdam, 1969, no. B280, copy B.

Thomas Worlidge; after Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Aeneas Sylvius, 18th century, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1271.