The "Sotto Piombi," Where Death Sentences Were Read, 1797

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series Title

I Pozzi e i Piombi di Venezia (The Wells and Leads of Venice) [plate 7]

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.9 × 30.6 cm (9 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

sheet: 28.2 × 35.4 cm (11 1/8 × 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2019.137.7

Artists / Makers

Giovanni De Pian (artist) Italian, 1764 - 1800

Francesco Galimberti (artist after) Italian, 1755 - 1803

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, below image, at left:Gallimberti del.; in plate, below image, at right: de Pian scl.; in plate, below image, at right: Camerato detto sotto piombi, dove par ordine degli ex Inquisitori di Stato, il Capitan Grande si portava colà a legere la Sentenza di morte / No. 7 piedi 3 Veneti; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 582; by later hand, upper left verso in pen and brown ink: 7; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Pian (De) Gio; c34

Provenance

(La Portantina di Mattia Jona, Milan); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

La Portantina di Mattia Jona

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.