Ornamental Panel Inscribed "Victoria Augusta"

c. 1516

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

Artist, Italian, active c. 1490 - 1525 or after

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.3 x 13.1 cm (10 3/8 x 5 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.2908

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.50, no. 45

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig,May 7-9, 1928, lot 252); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 210.

1994

  • Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as Ornamental Panel Inscribed "Victoria Augusta".

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.98.

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q64956985

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