Collection Cain and Abel's Offering and the Death of Abel

Cain and Abel's Offering and the Death of Abel

Francesco Villamena, Artist Raphael, Artist

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Cain and Abel's Offering and the Death of Abel

between 1566 and 1624

Francesco Villamena (Artist) Italian, 1566-1624 Raphael (Artist) Italian, 1483-1520

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Plate: 3 3/4 × 10 3/8 inches (9.5 × 26.4 cm) Sheet: 4 1/2 × 10 3/4 inches (11.4 × 27.3 cm)

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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1193

This work is in the public domain.

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Signed, in plate, lower center: [artist's monogram]

Inscribed, in plate below image, lower center: Deus reiectis Cain muneribus: Abel dona suscipit. Abel a Cain interficitur Genes. IV. Inscribed, lower right corner: 9

Stamp, verso: Scripps 1883 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)]

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October 1883, F. Keppel & Co. 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Francesco Villamena; after Raphael, Cain and Abel's Offering and the Death of Abel, between 1566 and 1624, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1193.

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