Old, Bald-headed Shepherd, Seated Shepherd Boy and Flock, after 1766

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series Title

Twelve Etchings Dedicated to Conte Firmian

Medium

etching with white heightening on blue laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 33 × 42.2 cm (13 × 16 5/8 in.)

sheet: 39.8 × 50 cm (15 11/16 × 19 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Scola 1994, no. 76, State i/iii

Accession Number

2017.19.20

Artists / Makers

Francesco Londonio (artist) Italian, 1723 - 1783

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: A. S. Eza. Sig.r Conte Carlo di Firmian, Cavaliere dell'Insigne Ordine del Toson d'Oro... / ...che L'Intenditore, e Protteotroe delle arti liberali gradirà quello suo rispetoso tributo / Il Quadro è presso S. E. il Sig. Card. Borromeo

Provenance

A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Gregory Mescha, Baltimore; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, A. Thompson, Mr.

Bibliography

1994: Scola, Monica. Catalogo ragionato delle incisioni di Francesco Londonio. Milan, 1994: no.76, i/iii