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Plate from a suite of 10 Verticle Grotesques.

Print
1720-40 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (Engraver)
Langlois (Publisher)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Reverse copy of an original from a suite of prints published by Odoardo Fialetti after designs by Polifilio Giancarli.

Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Plate from a suite of 10 Verticle Grotesques. (generic title)
  • Plate from a suite of reverse copies after 10 Verticle Grotesques by Giancarli. (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Anonymous engraver, satyr carrying a vase with snakes, and children attacking a dragon. Plate from a suite of copies after 10 Verticle Grotesques by Polifilio Giancarli. French, first half of the eighteenth century.
Physical description
Reverse copy of an original from a suite of prints published by Odoardo Fialetti after designs by Polifilio Giancarli.
Dimensions
  • Cut to approx. height: 23.6cm
  • Cut to approx. width: 14.9cm
Object history
Reverse copy of an original from a suite of prints published by Odoardo Fialetti after designs by Polifilio Giancarli.
Bibliographic references
  • (Berlin II) Berlin Staatlich Museen., Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 559.
  • Buffa, Sebastian, ed. The Illustrated Bartsch, 38. Italian masters of the sixteenth century: Virgil Solis. New York: Abaris Books, 1983. No. 044.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
27440:3

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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