About the Artwork
The Descent to Hell
between 1450 and 1500
Andrea Mantegna
1431-1506
Italian
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 16 3/8 × 13 3/8 inches (41.6 × 34 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S726
This work is in the public domain.
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Stamped, in red-violet, on verso: [horizontal oval]
Provenance
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)
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Hind, A. M. Early Italian Engraving. London, 1948, vol. 5, p. 18, no. 9 and vol. 6, plate 500.
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Andrea Mantegna, The Descent to Hell, between 1450 and 1500, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S726.
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