ΦΑΙΝΟΜΑΙ ΑΠΝΟΥΣ (I Seem to Be Breathless)

1784

Henry Tresham

Artist, Irish, 1751 - 1814

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown and gray on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 28.7 × 21.5 cm (11 5/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 43.1 × 32.5 cm (16 15/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2016.171.1.14

Associated Artworks

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Novella del naufragio (News of the Shipwreck)

Henry Tresham

1784

Ascolta e Spera (Listen and Hope)

Henry Tresham

1784

La fuga notturna (The Noctural Flight)

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

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 149, fig. 2.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate:ΦΑΙΝΟΜΑΙ ΑΠΝΟΥΣ [phainomai apnous]

Wikidata ID

Q77259948


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