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Age Does Not Protect Against Folly (Alter schützt vor Thorheit nicht)
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Johann Christoph Erhard and Niklaus König

Age Does Not Protect Against Folly (Alter schützt vor Thorheit nicht)

c. 1821

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Age Does Not Protect Against Folly (Alter schützt vor Thorheit nicht)

c. 1821

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 133 x 163 mm. (5 1/4 x 6 7/16 in.) Image: 107 x 157 mm. (4 3/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.1518
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "F.N. Konig del."; below image, lower right, in plate "J.C. Erhard int."; below image, lower center, in plate "Alter schütz vor Thorheit nicht. / Alpenrosen. 1821."; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "98"; below image, lower right, in graphite "J.C. Erhard"

Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: partial watermark, unidentified

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