Charity, 1597

  • Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617
  • Jacobus Matham, Dutch, 1571-1631

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 6 × 4 inches (15.2 × 10.2 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S765.3

Stamped, in red and in purple, verso: Rijks Prentenkabinet (Lugt 240 and 699) Stamped, verso: Scripps 1886 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate, lower left corner of image: 3. Inscribed, in plate, below image: Quatum vis magnos dulce est mihi ferre labores, | Quos flagrans amor edulcat, vehemeuso[] cupido.

Rijks Prentenkabinet (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

July 1886, (H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

Jacobus Matham; after Hendrick Goltzius, Charity, 1597, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S765.3.