Suffer Little Children to Come unto Me, 1598

  • Johan Bara, Dutch, 1581-1634
  • Marten de Vos, Netherlandish, 1532-1603

Engraving in ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 10 1/4 × 7 1/2 inches (26 × 19.1 cm) Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 3/4 inches (26 × 19.7 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S75

Marked, watermark, obscured by bottom center of image. Marked, Scripps stamp, verso: (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)

Inscribed, in plate, lower left of image: 1598 Inscribed, bottom left: M. de Vos inventor Inscribed, lower center: Ioann bara Sculptor Inscribed, lower right: Balt: Caimox ex: Inscribed, in plate below image: SINITE PARVVLOS, ET NOLITE EOS PROHIBERE AD ME | VENIRE: TALIVM EST ENIM REGNVM COELORVM. MAT. XIX.

September 1887, J. Meyer (Carlsbad, possibly California, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps [Harriet J.]

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

Johan Bara; after Marten de Vos, Suffer Little Children to Come unto Me, 1598, engraving in ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S75.