Fishing [La pesca], 1864

Not on View

Medium

etching on chine collé, proof before letters

Dimensions

sheet: 36.4 × 28 cm (14 5/16 × 11 in.)
plate: 25.6 × 18.8 cm (10 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Dragone 1980, no. 78, State i/ii

Accession Number

2013.30.18

Artists / Makers

Antonio Fontanesi (artist) Italian, 1818 - 1882

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: AFontanesi; by artist, lower center under image, in graphite [partially erased]: al nobile collega Signore ____; by artist, lower left under platemark, in graphite: prova non finita; by later hand, verso lower right, in graphite: D78

Provenance

[Il Bulino Antiche Stampe, Milan]; purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Il Bulino Antiche Stampe di Matteo Crespi

Exhibition History

2014: From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

Bibliography

1980: Dragone, Angelo.Antonio Fontanesi : l'opera grafica. Bologna, 1980, no. 78.