Artist after Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640
Publisher Abraham Blooteling, Dutch, 1640-1690
Title
  • Lions, Plate 1
  • Varie Leonum Icones (series title)
Date between 1660 and 1690
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 5 5/8 × 7 inches (14.3 × 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 7 3/8 inches (14.9 × 18.7 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S150.1
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate below image, lower left: Abraham Bloteling [sic] | fecit
Inscribed, lower center: VARIAE LEONUM ICONES | picta a | Petro P. Rubens.
Inscribed, lower right: Nicolaus Visscher | excudit
Inscribed, lower right corner of plate: 1
1883, H. Wunderlich & Co.
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)