Et ecce sedes posita erat in coelo... (God the Son in Majesty on the Throne Surrounded by the Four Creatures and Worshipped by the Twenty-four Elders)

1809/1810

Luigi Sabatelli I

Artist, Italian, 1772 - 1850

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 70.5 × 49.4 cm (27 3/4 × 19 7/16 in.)
    plate: 63.5 × 45.5 cm (25 × 17 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.46.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc 1854-1888: undesc


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels: undesc

1978

  • Paolozzi Strozz, Beatrice. Luigi Sabatelli: Disegni e Incisioni. Florence, 1978: no. 62

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Luigi Sabatelli inv ed inc in Milano; lower center in plate: Et ecce sedes posita erat ini coelo, et supra sedem sedens,...et Iris in circuitu sedis. Et viginti quatuor seniores sedentes, circumamicti vestimentis albis, / et in capilibus eorum corone aureç;. Et septem lampades ante thronum,...Et in conspectu sedis tampquam mare vitreum, et in circuit quator Animalia, Apoc. C.I.V.

Wikidata ID

Q76561920


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