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It is Useless to Hope to Conquer the World, Since the Ancients Did Not Succeed

Etienne Delaune and Jean Delaune

It is Useless to Hope to Conquer the World, Since the Ancients Did Not Succeed

1579

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It is Useless to Hope to Conquer the World, Since the Ancients Did Not Succeed

1579

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 96 × 133 mm. (3 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.) Plate: 70 × 98 mm. (2 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.1105

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper right, in plate "O"; in image, upper left, in plate "STEPHANUS / PATER AET.61 / FOELICITE SCVLPSIT / IHOANI. FILIO / INVE. 1580"; in image, upper center, in print "ASIRRIA IN ARGENTINA PERSIA"; in image, lower left, in print "GRACIA"; in image, lower right, in print "ROMA" Verso: lower left in graphite "L"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Etienne Delaune

2000–2000

French, c. 1518/19-1583
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Artist

Jean Delaune

1558–2000

French, born 1559
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