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Title page vignette of Alcestis, for Wiselius's Mengel- en tooneelpoezij
Possibly by: Samuel Iperuszoon Wiselius (Dutch, 1769 – 1845)
about 1819
Medium/Technique
Pen and gray ink and brush and gray wash
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 x 15 cm (5 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Charles E. Clark
Accession Number00.739
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
DescriptionThis drawing is either a design for, or a copy after, the title page vignette for Samuel Iperuszoon Wiselius, Mengel- en tooneelpoezij, vol 4 (Amsterdam: Gartman en Van der Hey, 1819).
Signed
At lower left: S. I. Wiselius
InscriptionsIn image, on scrolls, in ink: ΑΛΚΕΣΤΙΣ / IΩN
At lower left, in ink: S. I. Wiselius. inv & del.
At lower right, in graphite: Drawing
At lower left, in ink: S. I. Wiselius. inv & del.
At lower right, in graphite: Drawing
ProvenanceDr. Charles Clark, MA; acquired January 1900