About the Artwork
Allegorical Children's Group
18th century
Jacob de Wit
1695-1754
Dutch
Unknown
Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 5 1/2 × 8 inches (14 × 20.3 cm) Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 1/4 inches (23.2 × 31.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S1264.4
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Markings
Signed, in plate, top left center of image: J. Wit f.
Inscribed, in plate, upper left center of image: Se vend | à Paris | chez Basan Inscribed, in brown ink, lower right corner: No 98
Stamped, verso: Scripps 1892 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Wurzbach, Alfred von. Niederlandisches Kunstler-Lexikon. Vienna and Leipzig, 1910, p. 891, no. 3.
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Jacob de Wit, Allegorical Children's Group, 18th century, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1264.4.
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