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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

2000

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

2000

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

French, c. 1518/19-1583
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Artist

Marcantonio Raimondi

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