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Ventura Salimbeni (1568 - 1613), printmaker
(Giovanni) Ambrogio Brambilla (active 1575 - 1595), printmaker

Object name:print

The Baptism of Christ

Series title:

etching, 1589

Published in 

Sheet 57 x 43 cm height x width

Reference:
Bartsch XVII.192.5

Inscriptions:
Ventura Salimbeni Senen. / inventor et escudit 1589 (lower left)
ABR (Brambilla's monogram, lower right, very faint)

Provenance:
Francis Douce
Bodleian Library

Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.; WA1863.5793

Comment:
For comment on this print see Michael Bury, 'The Print in Italy 1550-1620' (London: The British Museum, 2001), cat. no. 46.