Landscape with Classical Ruins

1720s

Marco Ricci

Artist, Venetian, 1676 - 1729

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.4 x 43 cm (11 9/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
    overall (separate inscription plate): 2.5 x 42.1 cm (1 x 16 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1975.30.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 8, State proof before numbers


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

Inscriptions

lower right plate: MR (monogram 9, Bartsch vol XXI); across bottom on separate plate: Ill:mo atque Ecc:.mo D.D. Gerardo Sagredo D. Marci Procuratori Viro omnium boarum artium / Fautori et Mecenati prestan.mo / In obseguij argumentum Carolum Orsolini D.D.D. / Mar.co Ricci In. et fec.

Watermarks

crossbow and crescent

Wikidata ID

Q65574702


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