Trompe l'Oeil: Prints with Maria Teresa, Using Original Copperplates

c. 1790

Milanese 18th Century

Artist

Michelangelo Mercoli

Artist, Italian, 1773 - 1802

Milanese 18th Century and Michelangelo Mercoli

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving printed in black and brown with ochre watercolor on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.6 x 28 cm (10 1/16 x 11 in.)
    sheet: 29 x 43.8 cm (11 7/16 x 17 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.163.6

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

in portrait of Maria Teresa: MARIA TERESA / DI LORENA ARCIDUCHESSA DI AUSTRIA / SPOSA DI VITTORIO EM DI SAV. D'AOSTA; lower left in plate: Franco Biondi dip; lower right in plate: Mercoli nip inc. ; by later hand, upper center in ink: No. 12 & NO

Wikidata ID

Q76335952

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