The Prophets: Jeremiah (c. 1470–75): Art, History and Details

The Prophets: Jeremiah (c. 1470–75) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Baccio Baldini (Italian, c. 1436–1487).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Florence, Italy, was a center for metalwork and paper manufacturing—and, thus, also for early engraving. To engrave a set of prophets and sibyls (ancient seer women), Baccio Baldini used traditional Italian goldsmith’s tools, including burins with both square- and round-shaped sections: square for the fine lines, and round for the broad ones.

Object facts

• Title: The Prophets: Jeremiah
• Date: c. 1470–75
• Creator attribution: Baccio Baldini (Italian, c. 1436–1487)
• Culture: Italy, Florence
• Type: Print
• Technique: engraving
• Collection: PR - Engraving
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1949.416

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Mrs. Ralph King

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry. "Florentine Engravings of the Fifteenth Century." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 3 (March 1951): 63-65.
• “Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 2 (February 1960): 28–35.

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