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Lucas Kilian (German, 1579-1637)

1627

Medium

Book with 24 etchings, bound in crimson levant with marbled endpapers, outer slip case

Classification

Book

Dimensions

168 × 142 mm (sheet); 170 × 150 (binding closed)

Culture

Germany

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings

Credit line

Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Books and manuscripts
• Writing and calligraphy
• 1600s
• Germany
• Orange