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1925

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2015

2025

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Print, Posteritati (Posterity)

This is a Print. It was print maker: Gerard Edelinck. It is dated ca. 1680 and we acquired it in 1925. Its medium is engraving on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor Garnier Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

7.3 × 14.9 cm (2 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)

It is signed

Signed, bottom right: "Edelinck sc."

It is inscribed

inscription: "POSTE-/RI-/TATI"

Cite this object as

Print, Posteritati (Posterity); Print Maker: Gerard Edelinck (Flemish, active in France, 1640/41 - 1707); engraving on paper; 7.3 × 14.9 cm (2 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1925-2-554

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