Print made by Johann Philip Koch, ca. 1716–1796, German, Die Unschuldige Susana - Susanna Innocens, undated
- Title:
Die Unschuldige Susana - Susanna Innocens
- Additional Title(s):
Susanna and the Elders
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Mezzotint printed in blue ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 × 19 1/2 inches (40.6 × 49.5 cm), Plate: 13 3/8 × 17 inches (34 × 43.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "KHK5"
Lettered lower center: "Die unschuldige Susana. | Susanna innocens."; lower left: "Susanna, schones Kind, es gieng dir wunderlich! | Ein bases alter Paar verband sich widler dich | Ein reiner Jungling hat, was die verliebten Alten | Dir zu entriehn gesucht, durch seinen Witz er[...]ten."; lower right: "Difficilem experta est fortunam casta Susanna; | Adgrediuntur eam fraude et amore senes | Detegit at invenis laqueos, et acumine mentis | Liberat infontem, punit eoque reos. | Ioh. Ph. Koch exc. A.V."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Undetermined
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1355
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bathing | Cartouche | Christianity | cloak | dog | elders | ewer | fear | fountain | Judaism | lust | nude | Old Testament | pouring | religious and mythological subject | shell | staff | tricking | wife | woman
- Associated People:
- Susanna
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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