Le Avventure di Saffo (The Adventures of Sappho)
1784
Artist, Irish, 1751 - 1814
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Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with engraved, etched, and aquatinted title page, engraved introduction, and eighteen etching and aquatints printed in brown, black, light green, and gray on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book (volume closed): 44 × 33.5 × 0.9 cm (17 5/16 × 13 3/16 × 3/8 in.)
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Accession
2016.171.1.1-20
Associated Artworks
See all 20 artworksNovella del naufragio (News of the Shipwreck)
Henry Tresham
1784
Ascolta e Spera (Listen and Hope)
Henry Tresham
1784
La fuga notturna (The Noctural Flight)
Henry Tresham
1784
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Visconti Collection? (see Inscriptions). (Hill-Stone Incorporated, Dartmouth, MA); purchased 2016 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
1979
Pressly, Nancy. The Fuseli Circle in Rome. New Haven, 1979:
Inscriptions
in brown ink on first free endpaper: A: E: C: Visconti / [1?]: 8.; in brown ink across top of titlepage: Tresham