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Sitting Half Naked Maiden
1780
Angelica Kauffman
1741 - 1807
Swiss
Unknown
Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink on laid paper
Plate: 6 1/4 × 7 3/8 inches (15.9 × 18.7 cm) Sheet: 9 3/4 × 10 5/8 inches (24.8 × 27 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S645
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, below image, lower left: Angelica Kauffman fec:
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Published Oct. 1.st 1780.
Provenance
November 1887, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Angelica Kauffman, Sitting Half Naked Maiden, 1780, etching and aquatint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S645.
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