Galley Slave Hauling a Ship's Cargo, 1656

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series Title

Landscapes and Seaports (Roundels) [De Vesme 743-748]

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 12.9 x 12.7 cm (5 1/16 x 5 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Bert Freidus

Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 747, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1998.63.7

Artists / Makers

Stefano Della Bella (artist) Florentine, 1610 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Stef. Della Bella fecit. 1656.; lower right in plate (on barrel): SDB (in monogram); by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: de V.-M. 747/IIl by later hand, center verso in graphite: 4

Provenance

(André Candillier, Paris); purchased 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Candillier, André, M.

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.747.

1971: De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no.747.

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: 163, no.119.