Skeleton of a Hedgehog, 1620-1621

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series Title

Animal Skeletons

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 9.2 × 14.1 cm (3 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.)

sheet: 11.4 × 17.5 cm (4 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars

Catalogue Raisonné

Chiarini, no. 421

Accession Number

2023.5.8

Artists / Makers

Teodoro Filippo di Liagno (artist) Italian, 1589 - 1629

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, at top: Qui fuerat Canibus Spinis ERINACIUS asper / Terrori, manibus iam tenera ossa dedit; in plate, at lower right: Riccio; bottom left corner of sheet, in pen and ink by a later hand: 28

Provenance

(Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA); NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Hill-Stone, Inc.

Bibliography

2007: Chiarini, Marco. Teodoro Filippo di Liagno detto Filippo Napoletano, 1589-1629: Vite e opere. Florence: Centro Di, 2007, no. 421.