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

Etienne Delaune and Marcantonio Raimondi

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

before 1573

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

before 1573

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 83 × 129 mm. (3 1/4 × 5 1/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series Untitled Series
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

French, c. 1518/19-1583

French, c. 1518/19-1583
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Artist

Marcantonio Raimondi

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

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