Giorgio Ghisi and Michelangelo
The Prophet Jeremiah
1569-1578
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 566 x 435 mm. (22 5/16 x 17 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15166
From an untitled series of six engravings reproducing six of the twelve Seers (seven Propets and five Sibyls) in pendentives at the lower edges of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512.
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, "Grand Scale: Oversize and Composite Prints from the Age of Titial and Dürer," 19 March - 8 June 2008, traveled to Yale University Art Gallery, 17 October - 4 January 2009, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 31 January - 26 April 2009, cat 10C, p 114.
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'The Pious & the Profane in Renaissance Prints,' September 23, 1998-January 3, 1999.
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'The Pious & the Profane in Renaissance Prints,' September 23, 1998-January 3, 1999.
Inscribed: In plate, at center: "HIEREMIAS"; by later hand, lower right in graphite: "No. 1" and at lower left [indecipherable]
