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Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743, British, Ego Dilecto Meo, ca.1700
- Title:
Ego Dilecto Meo
- Additional Title(s):
Virgin and Child
- Date:
- ca.1700
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/2 × 7 9/16 inches (26.7 × 19.2 cm), Plate: 10 1/16 × 7 1/16 inches (25.6 × 17.9 cm), Image: 9 3/16 × 7 1/16 inches (23.3 × 17.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "362 | nag[ler] 327."; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower center: "1 state before the date 1700."
Lettered, lower center: "Ego dilecto meo, et ad me conversio ejus. cant. 7.10."; lettered, lower left: "Scidon pinx:"; lettered, lower right: "Ex Museo Sim: du Bois Londini"; lettered, lower center: "J. Smith fec: | Sold by J. Smith at the Lyon and crown in Russell Street Covent - garden."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1201
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- baby | basket | Christianity | cloak | cloth | dress | dressing | halos | mother | pointing | religious and mythological subject | smiling | tunic | vase
- Associated People:
- The Virgin Mary
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:23048
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