The Virgin with the Monkey, ca. 1570

  • Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528
  • Jerome Wierix, Netherlandish, 1553-1619

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 7 3/8 × 4 3/4 inches (18.7 × 12.1 cm) Sheet: 7 1/2 × 4 7/8 inches (19.1 × 12.4 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1253

Signed, in plate, lower right edge of image: I H W AE 17

Stamped, verso: Scripps 1884 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate, lower center of image: [Durer's monogram]

April 1884, (H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

Jerome Wierix; after Albrecht Dürer, The Virgin with the Monkey, ca. 1570, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1253.