L'Ancella pietosa (The Merciful Servant Woman)
1784
Artist, Irish, 1751 - 1814
Henry Tresham
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 28.5 × 21.4 cm (11 1/4 × 8 7/16 in.)
sheet: 43.3 × 32.5 cm (17 1/16 × 12 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2016.171.1.6
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
lower right in plate: Enrico Tresham inv. e inc./ L'ANCELLA PIETOSA / Si riapriva in lei la sorgente del pianto che le grondava nelle sottoposte acque al che co / mmossa di Pietá l'Ancella disse abbracciandola Figlia & / Lib. I Cap. VIII
Wikidata ID
Q77259933