Le Passage de la Mer Rouge (The Crossing of the Red Sea)
Jacques Callot, French, 1592 - 1635
1629
Etching on paper
Plate: 5 × 9 1/4 in. (12.7 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 5 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (13.5 × 24 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Charles Latham, Jr.
2014.44.6
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, bottom margin, left to right: Tabulam Hanc AEream Proprio et Exquisito Marte Incisam Jacobus Calottus Nobilis Lotharingus Dono Dedit Israeli Henrichetto Opus / Perfectissimum Amicorum Optimo et Sincerissimo. Israel exc. 1629 Parifiss.
Provenance
Charles Latham, Jr. (1919-2010), Hanover, New Hampshire and Thetford, Vermont; given to the present collection, 2014.
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