Skeleton of a Camel
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: 14.6 × 9.4 cm (5 3/4 × 3 11/16 in.)
sheet: 17.4 × 11.4 cm (6 7/8 × 4 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2023.5.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Chiarini, no. 419
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. 419
Inscriptions
in plate, at top: Haec tibi post multos gibbose CAMELE labores / Et sitis atq[ue] famis grata datur requies; in plate, at bottom center: Camello; in plate, at bottom right: F; bottom right corner, in pen and ink by a later hand: 19