Thales Milesius, #1 from the series The Seven Wise Men of Greece Artist: Jacques de Gheyn III (Dutch, ca. 1596–1641)
Publisher: Nicolas de Clerck (Dutch, active 1614–25)

1616

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Etching

Dimensions

image: 10 × 7 5/16 in. (25.4 × 18.6 cm)
platemark: 12 3/16 × 7 1/2 in. (31 × 19 cm)
sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 3/16 in. (40.3 × 25.8 cm)

Credit Line

Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

Accession Number

2008.9.1

Geography

Made in The Netherlands

Culture

Dutch

Period

17th century

Classification

Prints

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Bibliography
  • Lisa Hodermarsky and Tiffany Sprague, eds., A Perspicacious Tenure: Suzanne Boorsch at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2018), 56, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

etchings

Inscriptions

Greek inscription l.r. within image\r\nTitle and seven lines of Latin in lower margin: Turpe quid ausurus,...sit & hoc nimium.\r\nSigned within print l.r.: Fac. Ausonius Burdigatensis, Consul.

Signed

Signed and dated l.l.: IDGI.F. 1616

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