Trompe l'Oeil: Landscapes and Sheep, Using Original Copperplates, c. 1790

Not on View

etchings and color etching with touches of engraving printed in black and brown with ochre watercolor on blue laid paper

plate: 25.8 x 37.5 cm (10 3/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

sheet: 29 x 42 cm (11 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.)

2006.163.5

Francesco Londonio (artist) Italian, 1723 - 1783

in image of sheep: FLondonio / 1760

(Christopher Mendez, London); Ellwanger/Mescha Collection, Washington, D.C.; gift 2006 to NGA.

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

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 60.