About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Melchior Lorichs
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Title
- Portrait of Ismail, Ambassador of the Persian Shah Tahmasp I
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Place
- Denmark (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1562
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Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: “Franck / 2. Aug ‘825”; lower left, in graphite: “5092”; lower center, in graphite: “C19941 / ___ / Erik Fischer”; lower left corner, in graphite: “FL 5 / 2 cm / B. 15 II / W__ L ___ 25. 3 I”; lower left corner, in pen and black ink: “belle Ep- 5”
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Dimensions
- 415 × 289 mm (plate/sheet)
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Credit Line
- The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund
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Reference Number
- 2022.50
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