Titianus Redivivus, 1797

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Medium

etching, engraving, and aquatint with publisher's hand-coloring, on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 53 × 40.2 cm (20 7/8 × 15 13/16 in.)

sheet: 54.8 × 42 cm (21 9/16 × 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wright and Evans 1851, no. 443

Accession Number

2013.170.4

Artists / Makers

James Gillray (artist) British, 1757 - 1815

Hannah Humphrey (publisher) British, c.1745 - 1818

Image Use

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Inscription

across upper edge: Ah! ha! - Ah! ha! Messrs Van-Butchell!.. in image, held by eagle: VENETIAN MANUSCRIPT; in image, on rainbow: 'redeunt Titianica regna, jam nova progenies coelo demittitur alto; across lower edge, in plate: TITIANUS REDEVIVUS; -or- the seven-wise-men consulting the new Venetian oracle, -a Scene in ye Academic Grove. No 1; lower left in plate: J G inv et fe; lower right in plate: Pubd. Novr. 2d. 1797. by H. Humphrey St James's Street

Provenance

(Andrew Edmunds, London); purchased by NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Edmunds, Andrew

Exhibition History

2018: Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1851: Wright, Thomas and Robert H. Evans. Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray; Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third. London, 1851. Reprint. NY: B. Blom, 1968: no. 443