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Artist/Maker(s): Hans Jacob Plepp (Swiss, about 1557/1560 - 1597/1598)
Culture: Swiss
Place(s): Switzerland (Place created)
Date: about 1590 - 1595
Medium: Pen and black and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk
Dimensions: 42.4 x 29.5 cm (16 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Markings: Watermark: Unidentifiable fragment of a symbol.
Inscriptions: Inscribed in brown ink at lower left, FiDES”, at lower center, “herr hauptman Johannes Schwaller[?] / dieser zeit vogt zu Bächburg und fr/Margeretha Ischarantin sein Ehege/mahelin” and at lower right, “SPES” inscribed with color notations in black ink throughout. On the verso, inscribed at lower left, in faded red ink, “In Basel gekauft für 1 1/2 fr in Juli 1858”.
SKU: 200328
