Skeleton of a Hedgehog
1620-1621
Artist, Italian, 1589 - 1629

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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