Title Page

1740s

Giovanni Francesco Costa

Artist, Venetian, 1711 - 1773

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 32 × 22.2 cm (12 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.) (slightly irregular)

  • Accession

    2013.97.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mason 1979, no. D.1

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1979

  • Mason, Rainer Michael. "Nuovo catalogo delle incisioni archeologiche di Gianfrancesco Costa/A new catalogue of archaeological etchings by Gianfrancesco Costa." Print collector/Il conoscitore di stampe 41 no. 2 (1979): D.1

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: 1; in plate on tablet: ALIQUOT AEDIFICIO. / AD GRAECOR. / ROMANORUNQVE / MOREM / ESTRUCTOCORVM / SCHEMATA / INVENTA AEREQVE / INCISA / Ab Io. Francesco Costa / Venero / Architectonicae Artis Profes.

Wikidata ID

Q77007903

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