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Domenico Morelli

Personification of Engraving (Allegoria dell'incisione), 1879

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Medium

etching, aquatint, and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 13.1 × 15.9 cm (5 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)

sheet: 19.1 × 26.3 cm (7 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Ann and Matthew Nimetz

Catalogue Raisonné

Davoli 1955, no. 2

Accession Number

2014.107.2

Artists / Makers

Domenico Morelli (artist) Neapolitan, 1823 - 1901

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Morelli

Provenance

Edolo Masci [1938 - 2008] Rome; Isabella Aslan, Rome; (Philibiblon Gallery S.r.l., Rome); purchased by NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Masci, Edolo
Philibiblon Gallery S.r.l.

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1955: Davoli, Angelo. L'acquaforte italiana dell'Ottocento. Reggio Emilia, 1955: no. 2

1993: Aslan, Sissi. Incisione italiana dell'Ottocento (Rome, 1993): no. 63

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