Insetti ed Altri Animali

1772

Giuseppe Padovani

Artist, Italian

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    album of 39 watercolor illustrations of insects, fish, and reptiles,a trompe l'oeil watercolor frontispiece of scattered playing cards and a bordered title page

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener

  • Dimensions

    book: 30.3 × 22.4 × 1.1 cm (11 15/16 × 8 13/16 × 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.194.1.2

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Associated Artworks

Fiori Diversi Raccolti da Giuseppe Padovani Argentano

Giuseppe Padovani

1772

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

[Sims Reed Rare Books, sale, 53rd New York Antiquarian Book Fair, 11-14, April, 2011, no. 63] Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

illustrations numbered individually by later hand in brown ink upper right; inside lower cover in brown ink: Libro d'insetti ed altri Animali seg. dal. N 1 fino al 41; upper right in red pencil: ?-80 / upper right in graphite: ID 17023 lower center in brown ink: (not deciphered)

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