Exegi Monumentum (Art Inscribing Minerva's Shield), 1775

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.8 × 21.2 cm (11 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 35.6 × 27.6 cm (14 × 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Newcome Schleier-Grasso 2003, no. 113

Accession Number

2015.47.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni David (artist) Italian, 1743 - 1790

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Exegi monumentum aere perenius Hor. Lib: 1 Od. 30.; by later hand, lower center in brown ink: Maniera di Gio. Piranesi(?); on tablet, lower left in image: IAC. COM DURATIO / Ios II et, M. Ther Augg. / Apud Venet. Legato / Animi liberalitate venustate / Optimarumq. Artium Favore / celeberrimo / Jo. David. Gen. / Prima grati animo munus / D. D. D. / Venet. MDCCLXXV

Bibliography

2003: Grasso, Giovanni, and Mary Newcome Schleier. Giovanni David, Pittore e incisore della famiglia Durazzo. Turin, 2003: no. 113.