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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Maker

(artist)

(engraver)

(publisher)
active 1660-1681 (Life dates)

Title

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Date of Production

1679

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 19.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2901

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: above the image, black ink: “TURRIS BABEL LIB. II. 61//”; below the image, black ink: “Descriptio Hortorum Semiramidis, qui pensiles dicti sunt.//”. Mount: below the image, centre, typed, black ink: “FLEMISH SCHOOL//”; lower left corner, typed, black ink: “Turris Babel, Amsterdam, 1679.//”.

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