Personification of Engraving (Allegoria dell'incisione)

1879

Domenico Morelli

Associated Names
Domenico Morelli

Artist, Neapolitan, 1823 - 1901

The image shows a portrait of a person facing forward. The person's facial features are delicately drawn with soft lines, and their hair falls naturally around their face. They are draped in fabric over one shoulder and holding a long, thin object in their hand. The background is textured with light and shadow, and the image is monochromatic with a visible signature at the lower right corner of the paper's border.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Ann and Matthew Nimetz

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.1 × 15.9 cm (5 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 19.1 × 26.3 cm (7 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.107.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Davoli 1955, no. 2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Edolo Masci [1938 - 2008] Rome; Isabella Aslan, Rome; (Philibiblon Gallery S.r.l., Rome); purchased by NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

Bibliography

1955

  • Davoli, Angelo. L'acquaforte italiana dell'Ottocento. Reggio Emilia, 1955: no. 2

1993

  • Aslan, Sissi. Incisione italiana dell'Ottocento (Rome, 1993): no. 63

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Morelli

Watermarks

bird in a circle

Wikidata ID

Q77007855

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