Physical Qualities
Color relief print, Sheet: 392 x 275 mm. (15 7/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Plate: 367 x 251 mm. (14 7/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Fund
Object Number
2009.9
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2009; Paul McCarron, New York
Signed: 2 (yellow tone printed first, then black line printed second)
Inscribed: In matrix, at upper left: "stat suocuique dies / breve et irreparabile / Omnibus est vita"; in matrix, at upper center: "Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, / Labuntur anni, nec pietas moram / Rugis aut instanti senectae / afferet indomitaeque morti"; in matrix, at center: "iam te premet nox"; in matrix, at lower left: "PV / 1841."; in matrix, at lower center: "GRAEFF sc"; in matrix, at lower right: "PH.VEiT."
Markings: None
