Title Page for "Views of the Ports of the Sea", 1647

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 9.2 x 13.9 cm (3 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 794, State only

Accession Number

1991.163.9

Artists / Makers

Stefano Della Bella (artist) Florentine, 1610 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

center right in plate: Di / Stef. Dell... / Bella / Parigi; center right in plate: AL. Ill.' Sig. / CAVALIER / Tomaso Guidonto / in Fiorenza; lower right in plate: Auec Priu / du Roy.; center in plate: Po sa / Piano; cCp//: SDB; cCp//: 1647; aBp//: A Paris Chez Israel, rue de l'Arbre sec, au logis Monsie ur le Mercier, Orfeure de la Reyne pres la croix du tiroir

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green, Virginia; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Green, George Benjamin, Dr. and Mrs.

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. 794, only.

1971: De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no. 794, only.

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: no. II. 286.