Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere

1560s

Giorgio Ghisi

Artist, Italian, 1520 - 1582

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 24.1 × 13.4 cm (9 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.) (cut within platemark)

  • Accession

    2020.73.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Boorsch/Lewis 1985, no. 38

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Il Bulino Antiche Stampe di Matteo Crespi, Milan); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 43

1985

  • Boorsch, Suzanne and Michal and R.E. Lewis. The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985: 38.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: GMF

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