Trompe l'Oeil: Prints with Maria Teresa, Using Original Copperplates, c. 1790

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Medium

etching and engraving printed in black and brown with ochre watercolor on blue laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.6 x 28 cm (10 1/16 x 11 in.)

sheet: 29 x 43.8 cm (11 7/16 x 17 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Accession Number

2006.163.6

Artists / Makers

Milanese 18th Century (artist)

Michelangelo Mercoli (artist) Italian, 1773 - 1802

Image Use

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Inscription

in portrait of Maria Teresa: MARIA TERESA / DI LORENA ARCIDUCHESSA DI AUSTRIA / SPOSA DI VITTORIO EM DI SAV. D'AOSTA; lower left in plate: Franco Biondi dip; lower right in plate: Mercoli nip inc. ; by later hand, upper center in ink: No. 12 & NO