Skeleton of a Hedgehog

1620-1621

Teodoro Filippo di Liagno

Artist, Italian, 1589 - 1629

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.2 × 14.1 cm (3 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 11.4 × 17.5 cm (4 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.5.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chiarini, no. 421


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA); NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2007

  • Chiarini, Marco. Teodoro Filippo di Liagno detto Filippo Napoletano, 1589-1629: Vite e opere. Florence: Centro Di, 2007, no. 421.

Inscriptions

in plate, at top: Qui fuerat Canibus Spinis ERINACIUS asper / Terrori, manibus iam tenera ossa dedit; in plate, at lower right: Riccio; bottom left corner of sheet, in pen and ink by a later hand: 28


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