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Circumcision
1594
Hendrick Goltzius
1558-1617
Dutch
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 18 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (47.6 × 35.2 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S529
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, lower center of image: [artist's monogram] | 1594
Inscribed, in plate, lower left of image: 4 Inscribed, in plate, below image: Cernis vt octaua sit circuncisus Fesus | Luce puer, tenero accipiens in corpore vulnus, || Ad norman veteris legis, rituma[] receptum, | []facidis multos obseruatuma[] per amos. Inscribed, right of Latin inscription: C. Shoneus
Provenance
September 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hendrick Goltzius, Circumcision, 1594, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S529.
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