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Dido’s Suicide
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Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others

Dido’s Suicide

c. 1668

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Dido’s Suicide

Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others

Dido’s Suicide

Dido’s Suicide

c. 1668

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 234 x 170 mm. (9 3/16 x 6 11/16 in.) Plate: 183 x 128 mm. (7 3/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.1394

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Monogrammed in trompe-l'oeil on surface of stone form right of center foreground: superimposed "GL" Below image: "Dus deerlyk sneuvelde Kartagoos koningin . / Men schrikke, en wachte zich voor d'ongebonde min . / Per Gerardum de Lairesse inv: et Sculp: et Per Nicolaum Visscher edit: cum Priv: Ord: Gen: Belgii Fæder:" Lower left corner: "71" Beneath plate mark at left in graphite: "LB 46"

Markings: None

Artist

Gerard de Lairesse

Dutch, 1641 - 1711

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Publisher

Nicolaes Visscher I

Dutch, 1618 - 1679

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Publisher

Nicolaes Visscher II

Dutch, 1649 - 1702

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Publisher

Gerard Valck

Dutch, 1651/52 - 1726

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