Title Page
1784
Artist, Irish, 1751 - 1814
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 28.7 × 21.8 cm (11 5/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
sheet: 43.3 × 32.5 cm (17 1/16 × 12 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.171.1.1
Associated Artworks
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Le Avventure di Saffo (The Adventures of Sappho)
Henry Tresham
1784
Novella del naufragio (News of the Shipwreck)
Henry Tresham
1784
Ascolta e Spera (Listen and Hope)
Henry Tresham
1784
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Visconti Collection? (see Inscriptions). (Hill-Stone Incorporated, Dartmouth, MA); purchased 2016 by NGA.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper center in brown ink: Tresham; in plate: Le Avventure di SAFFO / ...Spirat adhuc amor. / Vivuntque commissi calores / Aeoliae fidibus puellae / Horat. Carm Lib. IV Od. IX / ROMA / MDCCLXXIIII
Wikidata ID
Q77259924