Firing the Cannons

c. 1641

Stefano Della Bella

Associated Names
Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

The image shows a side view of an artillery setup with cannons and soldiers. In the background, there is a town with church towers. The etching style depicts swirling lines for smoke. The color scheme is black ink on paper. Figures near the cannons engage in tasks with baskets and barrels around them.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.8 x 14.2 cm (3 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 18.6 x 29.5 cm (7 5/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1985.3.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 263, State i/iv

  • Series Title

    Varii capricci militari

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1906

  • Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906: no.263.

1971

  • De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no.263.

2001

  • Talbierska, Jolanta.AKWAFORTY ZE ZBIOROW GABINETU RYCIN BIBLIOTEKI UNIWERSYTECKIEJ W WARSZAWIE / Etchings from the Collection of the Print Room of the Warsaw University Library. Warsaw, 2001: 72, no.94.

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: S.D. la Bella fecit; upper right in plate: F.L.D. Ciatres excud. Cum Privil. Regis; lower right in plate: 6; later hand lower center verso in graphite: 56

Wikidata ID

Q74066997

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