Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity), 1544

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 7.3 × 5 cm (2 7/8 × 1 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Pauli 'H.S.', no. 79, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.1226

Artists / Makers

Sebald Beham (artist) German, 1500 - 1550

Barthel Beham (artist after) German, 1502 - 1540

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate at upper left: 155 / HSB [artist's monogram] / in plate at lower right: CZINMON; in plate along right edge, on column: ICH LEB VON DER BRUST MEINER DOCHTER ["“I live off the breast of my daughter.”]; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: C.2586 / C.7287; at lower right in graphite in later hand: B. 79 / 3d state / P. 79 II

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: British Museum Duplicate (Lugt 305), annotated "CD" in brown ink at center; Kerrich Collection (Lugt 1568); National Gallery of Art

Provenance

Thomas Kerrich [1748-1828], Cambridge (Lugt 1568); British Museum, London (Lugt 305); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

British Museum, The
Kerrich, Thomas
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1901: Pauli, Gustav. Hans Sebald Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche, Radierungen und Holzschnitte. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, 33. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1901. Supplement. Hans Sebald Beham; Nachtrage zu dem kritischenVer