Man Carrying a Package on His Back, 17th century

  • Jan van Aken, Dutch, 1614-1661
  • Herman Saftleven the Younger, Dutch, 1609-1685

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 8 1/2 × 10 7/8 inches (21.6 × 27.6 cm) Sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 1/8 inches (24.1 × 30.8 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S6.1

Signed, lower center: [erased]

Stamp, in black, verso: H. Weber (Lugt 1383) Scripps stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date, 1895, added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate, bottom left edge: HS inventer Inscribed, in plate, upper left corner: 2 Inscribed, in brown ink, lower right corner: Sachtleven [sic] Inscribed, verso: [notations]

H. Weber

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

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

Jan van Aken; after Herman Saftleven the Younger, Man Carrying a Package on His Back, 17th century, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S6.1.