Title Page, c. 1775

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series Title

Raccolta di teste

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.5 × 10.8 cm (5 11/16 × 4 1/4 in.)

sheet: 53.9 × 38.2 cm (21 1/4 × 15 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Florian Carr Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Rizzi 1971, no. 159

Accession Number

2014.176.13.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1727 - 1804

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist after) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Inscription

in center of plate: Raccolta / di / Teste numero trenta / dipinte / Dal Sig.r Gio: Batta. Tiepolo / Pittore Veneto / Al Serviggio di S: M: C: / Morto in Madrid / l'anno 1770 / Incise / da Gio: Dominico suo Figlio / divise in due Libri / Libro Primo

Provenance

Cesare Morini, Milan (d. 2013); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bareggi, Silvana

Bibliography

1906: Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906:no. 115

1971: Rizzi, Aldo. The Etchings of the Tiepolos. Complete edition. London: Phaidon, 1971: no.