Porsenna Receiving the News of Cloelia's Escape, between 1500 and 1550

  • Georg Pencz, German, 1500-1550

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 3 1/8 × 4 5/8 inches (7.9 × 11.7 cm) Sheet: 9 × 10 7/8 inches (22.9 × 27.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

35.38

Signed, in plate, upper left: [artist's monogram]

Stamp, in brown, verso: A. Freiherr von Lanna (Lugt 2773) Stamp, in brown, verso: P. J. Sachs (Lugt 2091)

Inscribed, in plate above monogram, upper left: CLOELIA Inscribed, center bottom edge: REX PROSENNA Inscribed, verso: [pencil notations]

A. Freiherr von Lanna (Prague, Czech Republic)

P. J. Sachs. 1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Georg Pencz, Porsenna Receiving the News of Cloelia's Escape, between 1500 and 1550, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 35.38.