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Inscription

lower right, in plate: Nicolo Nelli V.F. 1564

Provenance

Christian M. Nebehay [1909-2003], Vienna; purchased 1960 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1964.

Exhibition History

1989
Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989, no. 23, repro.
2007
Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007
2018
Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1989
Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque. Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989: no.23.
2023
Isabella Augart, "Nel Paese di Cuccagna. Nicolò Nelli and the Topographies of Abundance," Food & History. Vol. 21, no. 2023, pp. 133-158.

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