Artist Giacinto Gimignani, Italian, 1611-1681
Title
  • Battle of Covensteyn in 1585
Date 1647
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 12 1/8 × 16 5/8 inches (30.8 × 42.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 17 inches (31.4 × 43.2 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S514
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed and dated, in plate, center left edge of image: Hyaci. Gimignanus Pistori.is inven. Sculp. | 1647
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate in banderole: [long descriptive inscription]
Inscribed, top edge of image under the title: Pugna in aggrere Couenstenio anno 1585.
Inscribed, upper right corner of image: 268
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [artist, title and reference]
January 1901, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany).
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)