Two Camel Heads [recto]

probably 1649

Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with revisions in black chalk and brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 11.6 x 14.8 cm (4 9/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1977.15.1.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 727

Associated Artworks

The Flight into Egypt [verso]

Stefano Della Bella

1610


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Tomkins (1743 - 1816). (sale, Mr. Hickman's Gallery, London, 25-28 February 1818, no. 289). Robert Stayner Holford [1808-1892]; his son, Sir George Lindsay Holford, K.V.O.C. [1860-1926]; (his sale, Sotheby's London, 22 May 1928, no. 29B. (Spencer Drummond Ltd.); NGA purchase in 1977

Associated Names

Bibliography

1906

  • Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906, no. 727.

1971

  • De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no. 727.

2001

  • Talbierska, Jolanta.AKWAFORTY ZE ZBIOROW GABINETU RYCIN BIBLIOTEKI UNIWERSYTECKIEJ W WARSZAWIE / Etchings from the Collection of the Print Room of the Warsaw University Library. Warsaw, 2001: no. II. 26.

Inscriptions

none

Markings

none

Watermarks

Circle and crown

Wikidata ID

Q65577901


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