Skeleton of a Bat, 1620-1621

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series Title

Animal Skeletons

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.1 × 9.5 cm (5 9/16 × 3 3/4 in.)

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

Credit Line

Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars

Catalogue Raisonné

Chiarini, no. 426

Accession Number

2023.5.12

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, at top: Sum MUS, sum VOLUCRIS mire ambigo nocti volanti / Nomina dat VESPER, dens mihi cauda mihi; in plate, at lower left: Pipistello; bottom right corner of sheet, in pen and ink by a later hand: 23

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. 426.