Fiori Diversi Raccolti da Giuseppe Padovani Argentano

1772

Giuseppe Padovani

Artist, Italian

Giuseppe Padovani

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    album of 38 botanical watercolor illustrations, a trompe l'oeil watercolor frontispiece of scattered playing and Tarot cards and a bordered title page

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener

  • Dimensions

    book: 30.3 × 22.3 × 1.3 cm (11 15/16 × 8 3/4 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.194.1.1

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Associated Artworks

Fiori Diversi; Insetti ed Altri Animali

Giuseppe Padovani

1772

Insetti ed Altri Animali

Giuseppe Padovani

1772

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

[Sims Reed Rare Books, sale, 53rd New York Antiquarian Book Fair, 11-14, April, 2011, no. 63] Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

illustrations numbered individually by later hand in brown ink upper right; recto of frontispiece upper center in graphite: 17xx; inside lower cover upper center in brown ink: Libro di Fiori Segnato dal numero y fino al 40; upper right in red pencil(?): [?]-80; upper right in graphite: #DA2 02 / ID 76769 / 2 voll; lower center in brown ink: (not deciphered)

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