Artist Bartolommeo Biscaino, Italian, 1632-1657
Title
  • Virgin Adoring the Infant Jesus
Date 1655
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 9 5/8 × 7 1/4 inches (24.4 × 18.4 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S138
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed and dated, in plate, lower left of image: BISCAINO F. | 1655
Marks Stamp, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Daman ex.
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [illegible notation, similar to 09.1S137]
October 1887, G. Claus (Dresden, Germany);
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)