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Print, Old Woman and a Boy with Candles

This is a Print. It is dated After 1615. Its medium is etching on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was bequest of George Campbell Cooper. It is credited Bequest of George Campbell Cooper.

Its dimensions are

23.8 × 19.5 cm (9 3/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed, lower left: "Peter Paul Rubens inuenit"; center: Quis vetot apposite, lumen de lumine tolli./Mille licet capiant, deperit inde nihil."

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Print, Old Woman and a Boy with Candles; Netherlands; etching on paper; 23.8 × 19.5 cm (9 3/8 × 7 11/16 in.); Bequest of George Campbell Cooper; 1896-3-209

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