Skeleton of a Gurnard, 1620-1621

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series Title

Animal Skeletons

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 9.2 × 14.5 cm (3 5/8 × 5 11/16 in.)

sheet: 11.4 × 17.4 cm (4 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars

Catalogue Raisonné

Chiarini, no. 435

Accession Number

2023.5.4

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, at bottom: Me prisci ignorant, Iuvenes dixere CAPONEM, / Forsam era, CYTARUS, MULUS ego, aut CUCULUS; in plate, at right center: Pesce cappone; bottom left corner of sheet, in pen and ink by a later hand: 25[?]

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. 435.