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Di regale Magion superbo avanzo (Figures beneath Monumental Arches)

1740s

Giovanni Francesco Costa

Associated Names

Giovanni Francesco Costa

Artist, Venetian, 1711 - 1773

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 Number

2013.97.2
Catalogue Raisonné

Mason 1979, no. D.2, State i/ii
Series Title

Aliquot Aedificio Ad Graecor Romanorumque Morem Estructorum Schemata (Some Buildings in the Greek and Roman Styles)

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Stanza del Borgo

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.2, i/ii

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: 2

Wikidata ID

Q77007905

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