DETAILS
- Artist
- Lucas van Leyden
- Date
- 1502
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet, trimmed to platemark: 27.3 × 19.6 cm (10 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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