Album of Prints after Parmigianino
1780s
Artist
Artist, Italian, 1739 - 1802
Artist, Italian, died 1801
Artist, Italian, 1762 - 1841
Artist, Italian, 1762 - 1837
Artist, Italian, active 1777 - 1823
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 31 etchings, soft-ground etchings, and etching and aquatints printed in colors on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 36.8 × 24 × 1.5 cm (14 1/2 × 9 7/16 × 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1980.45.1962
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard Cosway, London. Howard C. Levis, London (bookplate); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on endpaper, in brown ink: From the Collection of Richard Cosway Esq / R. A. / Feby. 1822; on endpaper, in graphite: Engraved by Conte Cesare Massimimiliano Gini / (Cesar-Maximiliano, come de Gini) / Inked about 1785
Markings
bookplates on front pastedown of Howard C. Levis, Francis Palmer, and Samuel Sharp