Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 240 × 158 mm. (9 7/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Plate: 120 × 83 mm. (4 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number
2019.43
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2019, James A. Bergquist
Jacobs 4 rotation, February 4 - November 30, 2020 (roughly 6 months on view; works covered during COVID-19 closures)
Inscribed: Recto: in image, in oval frame surrounding portrait, in plate "VIRGINIA DE VEZZE DA VELLETRI PITTRICE"; in image, lower margin, in plate, four lines of text beginning "Qui saggia mano ha di Virginia accolto [...]", below this text, in lower margin, in plate "Cl. Mellan franc. f. Rom. 1626. A.P.D.R."; below image, lower right, in plate "Odieuvre / excud."