Deer Hunt in a Swamp before a Chapel and Tower, ca. 1602

  • Jacob, I Savery, Netherlandish, 1565-1603

Etching and engraving in ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 7 3/8 × 11 1/8 inches (18.7 × 28.3 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1074

Marked, watermark, obscured by image, center right. Marked, Scripps stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) date, 1896, added in ink to the stamp.

Inscribed, in plate, top right edge of image: H. Hondius exc. 1602

December 1895, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 13.

Jacob, I Savery, Deer Hunt in a Swamp before a Chapel and Tower, ca. 1602, etching and engraving in ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1074.