The Land of Cockaigne

1564

Niccolò Nelli

Artist, Italian, c. 1533 - c. 1575

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 40.7 x 53.6 cm (16 x 21 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 43.2 x 65.3 cm (17 x 25 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.1349

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christian M. Nebehay [1909-2003], Vienna; purchased 1960 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1989

  • Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989, no. 23, repro.

2007

  • Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1989

  • Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque. Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989: no.23.

2023

  • Isabella Augart, "Nel Paese di Cuccagna. Nicolò Nelli and the Topographies of Abundance," Food & History. Vol. 21, no. 2023, pp. 133-158.

Inscriptions

lower right, in plate: Nicolo Nelli V.F. 1564

Watermarks

star in a circle

Wikidata ID

Q65511420

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