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  • Title: Sappho
  • Creator: South German 15th Century
  • Date Created: c. 1440
  • Physical Dimensions: sheet: 9.5 × 12.9 cm (3 3/4 × 5 1/16 in.) mount: 9.5 × 14.1 cm (3 3/4 × 5 9/16 in.)
  • Provenance: Friedrich Wilhelm Roloff, Berlin (based on inscription in album before it was dismantled; remained as part of an album until c. 2003). Library of the Marienstiftgymnasium, Stettin (now Szeczecin), Pomerania (the library dissolved by Poland after World War II). Private collection. (Dr. Jörn Günther, Hamburg, by 2003); Mr. and Mrs. Ladislaus von Hoffmann, Washington, D.C.; (Adrian Eeles Ltd., London); purchased 2016 by NGA.
  • Rights: CC0
  • Medium: pen and black ink with gray, pink, and green wash on laid paper, laid down

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