Study of Heads: Three Goats, an Ox, and a Ram, published c. 1783

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series Title

Six Etchings Published by Alberico da Barbiano: Title Page

Medium

etching with white heightening on blue laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.2 × 24.2 cm (6 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.)

sheet: 27.5 × 38.6 cm (10 13/16 × 15 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Scola 1994, no. 88, State i/iii

Accession Number

2017.19.60

Artists / Makers

Francesco Londonio (artist) Italian, 1723 - 1783

Alberico da Barbiano (publisher) Italian, active late 18th century

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Studi di Francesco Londonio da lui stesso Incisi, e dopo la sua Morte pubblicati sotto gli auspici d. S. A. / Il Sig. Principe Alberigo di Barbiano di Belgiojoso, d'Este, Visconte Trivulzio, Principe del S. R. I. Grande di / Spagna di Prima Classe, e Marchese di Fisgnano, e di Grumello, Conte di Cunio, e Lugo, &c. &c.

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Gregory Mescha, Baltimore; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

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

Bibliography

1994: Scola, Monica. Catalogo ragionato delle incisioni di Francesco Londonio. Milan, 1994: no. 88, i/iii