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Virgil Solis and Georg Pencz

Summer

1533-1561

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Summer

1533-1561

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 53 x 244 mm. (2 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.4703
One from a series of four engravings. Two prints from the series are in the Garrett Collection: 1946.112.4703 and 1946.112.4705. The carriages with the figures in this series have been identified as copies in reverse after Pencz's designs for glass paintings in Erlangen.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper right, in plate "VS"; in image, across upper portion of sheet, in plate "OSI / TRI' / PALIS / MATURI' / PAN / CERES / SITES / ESTUS / SUMER / LASI' / APO'' Verso: center in graphite "Summer / B 134 [indecipherable] / 15."; center in graphite diamond with "2517"; lower right in graphite "[indecipherable] 9.00"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Virgil Solis

1513–1561

German, 1514 - 1562
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Artist

Georg Pencz

1499–1549

German, c. 1500-1550
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