DETAILS
- Artist
- Hans Vredeman de Vries
- Date
- 1563
- Medium
- Etching; first state of four
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- sheet: 6 9/16 x 8 1/4 in. (16.6 x 21 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 2011
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