Trompe l'Oeil: Prints with Men and Sheep, Using Original Copperplates

c. 1790

Milanese 18th Century

Artist

Francesco Londonio

Artist, Italian, 1723 - 1783

Milanese 18th Century and Francesco Londonio

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26 x 37.7 cm (10 1/4 x 14 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 30.2 x 42.8 cm (11 7/8 x 16 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.163.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Scola 1994, no. 20, State and 26

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1994

  • Scola, Monica. Catalogo ragionato delle incisioni di Francesco Londonio. Milan, 1994.

Inscriptions

in sheep plate: FLondonio / in. f. 1760; in old man plate, upper left: FL; by later hand in graphite: [not deciphered]

Wikidata ID

Q76335959

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