Le Avventure di Saffo (The Adventures of Sappho)

1784

Henry Tresham

Artist, Irish, 1751 - 1814

Henry Tresham

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with engraved, etched, and aquatinted title page, engraved introduction, and eighteen etching and aquatints printed in brown, black, light green, and gray on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    book (volume closed): 44 × 33.5 × 0.9 cm (17 5/16 × 13 3/16 × 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.171.1.1-20

Associated Artworks

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Title Page

Henry Tresham

1784

Text Page

Henry Tresham

1784

Saffo si accende per Faone (Saffo Ignited by Phaon)

Henry Tresham

1784

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Visconti Collection? (see Inscriptions). (Hill-Stone Incorporated, Dartmouth, MA); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1979

  • Pressly, Nancy. The Fuseli Circle in Rome. New Haven, 1979:

Inscriptions

in brown ink on first free endpaper: A: E: C: Visconti / [1?]: 8.; in brown ink across top of titlepage: Tresham

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