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Alexander Having the Poems of Homer Placed in the Chest of Darius

Etienne Delaune and Marcantonio Raimondi

Alexander Having the Poems of Homer Placed in the Chest of Darius

2000-1572

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Alexander Having the Poems of Homer Placed in the Chest of Darius

2000-1572

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 83 × 129 mm. (3 1/4 × 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.1133
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom of chest at right, in plate "S" Verso: lower center in graphite diamond "2835"; lower center in graphite "Etiene Delaune rr Stephanus / Orleans 1520 [indecipherable] a Strasbourg 1590"; lower right in graphite "R.D. 301 / 2"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Etienne Delaune

2000–2000

French, c. 1518/19-1583
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Artist

Marcantonio Raimondi

1469–1533

Italian, c. 1470/82-c. 1527/34
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