Artist Jacob de Wit, Dutch, 1695-1754
Title
  • Putti Hovering Amongst Clouds
Date 18th century
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 7 1/4 × 9 5/8 inches (18.4 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 12 1/4 inches (23.5 × 31.1 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S1264.1
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, in plate, lower left edge of image: JWit | invt F
Marks Stamp, verso: Scripps 1892 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
January 1892, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Andresen, A. Handbuch Für Kupferstitch Sammler. Leipzig.1870-1873, no. 4.

Wurzbach, Alfred von. Niederlandisches Kunstler-Lexikon. Vienna and Leipzig, 1910, p. 891, no. 7.