Paternal Instruction, 1765

  • Gerard ter Borch, Dutch, 1617-1681
  • Johann Georg Wille, German, 1715-1808

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 17 1/8 × 13 1/4 inches (43.5 × 33.7 cm) Sheet: 18 1/4 × 14 5/8 inches (46.4 × 37.1 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1258

Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Et grave en 1765, par J. G. Wille, Graveur du Roy. Inscribed, lower left: Peint par G. Terburg. [sic] Inscribed, lower center: INSTRUCTION PATERNELLE.| [dedication in French to Maria Theresa] Inscribed, in plate above image, upper left: Elfte Platte

June 13, 1892, Heinrich Klemm and Theodore Grosse Collections Sale (Dresden, Germany). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Johann Georg Wille; after Gerard ter Borch, Paternal Instruction, 1765, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1258.