Diversi Animali (Various Animals), 1641

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Medium

bound volume with 24 etchings on laid paper mounted on laid paper

Dimensions

page size: 10.7 × 17 cm (4 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
book: 11.2 × 18 × 1 cm (4 7/16 × 7 1/16 × 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Vincent and Linda Buonanno

Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme/Massar 1971, nos. 690-713

Accession Number

2013.104.1.1-24

Artists / Makers

Stefano Della Bella (artist) Florentine, 1610 - 1664

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Inscription

by later hands on front pastedown at upper right in black ink: 90-79-13; upper center in graphite: Stefano della Bella / De Vesme 690-713/II; center right: Massar dates set: 1641 / superb impressions/compared with Spencer set at Fogg / MFA has third state; lower cover upper right in graphite: 2800/384; lower right: H QSS 1218[4?]

Provenance

(Maggs Bros., 1990); Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston; (Christie's, New York, Sale Thursday 20, June, 2013, Lot 384); Vincent and Linda Buonanno, Chicago; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Ursus Books and Prints, Ltd.
Vershbow, Arthur E., Mr.

Bibliography

1906: Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan, 1906, nos. 690-713.

1971: De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971, nos. 690-713.

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: 51-60, nos.1-28.