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1784

Henry Tresham

Associated Names
Henry Tresham

Artist, Irish, 1751 - 1814

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 28.9 × 21.6 cm (11 3/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 43.3 × 32.5 cm (17 1/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.171.1.2

  • Series Title

    Le Avventure di Saffo (The Adventures of Sappho)

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Henry Tresham

1784

The image depicts a page with an illustration of an ancient-style profile portrait medallion, featuring the bust and head of a person with defined facial features facing left. The person has a nose, cheekbones, and chin, with hair styled in a classical Greek fashion, tied with a band. Above the portrait, the text "Le Avventure di SAFFO" is inscribed in a decorative font. Below the medallion, there are lines of smaller text in Italian. The background has an aged paper texture with scattered spots. The location is listed as "ROMA," and the date is in Roman numerals "MDCCLXXVIII," which translates to 1784.

Le Avventure di Saffo (The Adventures of Sappho)

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

Inscriptions

center of plate: La decima Masa è non mena celebrata per gli suoi divini
Versi... / Studi ottenerla maggiore

Wikidata ID

Q77259925

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