Artist Cherubino Alberti, Italian, 1553-1615
Title
  • The River Nile
  • Statue of the Nile River (alternate title)
Date 1576
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 6 5/8 × 11 1/8 inches (16.8 × 28.3 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S3
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, in plate, lower right of image: C |A
Marks Stamp, verso: Scripps 1884 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, following monogram: 1576
Inscribed, in orange pencil, upper left corner, verso: [illegible]
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [notations]
the artist, Addison Thomas Millar [1860-1913];
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)