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Putto with the Alphabet
Public Domain

Sebald Beham and Barthel Beham

Putto with the Alphabet

1544

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Putto with the Alphabet

1544

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 42 x 78 mm. (1 5/8 x 3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.3038
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'The Pious & the Profane in Renaissance Prints,' September 23, 1998-January 3, 1999, fig. 5, p. 4.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, center right, in plate monogram "HSB", surrounded by the numbers of date "1545"; in image, across banderole, in plate letters of alphabet. Verso: center left in graphite indecipherable with "24192"; lower right in graphite "232"

Markings: CM: Garrett

Artist

Sebald Beham

1499–1549

German, 1500-1550
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Artist

Barthel Beham

1501–1539

German, 1502-1540
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