Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
Source URL: https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/music-61865
Virgil Solis
Music, mid-16th century
engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
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Artist Virgil Solis, German, 1514-1562
Title
  • Music
  • Musica (alternate title)
  • The Seven Liberal Arts (series title)
Date mid-16th century
Medium engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 3 1/4 × 2 1/4 inches (8.3 × 5.7 cm)
Accession Number 09.1S1116.1
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed Signed, in plate, center lower edge: [artist's monogram]
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, upper edge: MUSICA
Provenance
October 1887, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany);
1909-present, found in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)