A Winged Skeleton Holding an Anatomical Drawing

1779

Jacques Gamelin

Artist, French, 1738 - 1803

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 35.2 × 25.1 cm (13 7/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 52.7 × 39.9 cm (20 3/4 × 15 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.170.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1700): no. 2

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

  • IFF (1800): no. 2

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: permis d'imprimer / l'artique gugemage(?)

Watermarks

DANNOMAI(?) / 1777(?)

Wikidata ID

Q77005336

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