The Wittevrouwen Gate at Utrecht, 1646

  • Herman Saftleven the Younger, Dutch, 1609-1685

Etching and engraving printed in black ink

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10 5/8 × 9 1/4 inches (27 × 23.5 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1063

Signed, in plate, below image, lower left: [artist's monogram]

Marks, in ink, verso: W (circled) Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate below image, lower center: Wittevrouwen-poort. Inscribed, lower right: Ao. 1646

Carl Rolas du Rosey

October 1887, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

Herman Saftleven the Younger, The Wittevrouwen Gate at Utrecht, 1646, etching and engraving printed in black ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1063.