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The Scissors Grinder

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich and Adriaen van Ostade

The Scissors Grinder

1731-1773

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The Scissors Grinder

1731-1773

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 145 x 121 mm. (5 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.1238
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "Dietricy fecit 1741". Verso: lower right in graphite diamond with "843 s"

Markings: CM: Claghorn, Garrett

Artist

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

1711–1773

German, 1712-1774
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Artist

Adriaen van Ostade

1609–1684

Dutch, 1610-1685
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