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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R2915
People
Nicolò Boldrini, Italian (1510 - after 1566)
After Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Italian (Pieve di Cadore, Italy c. 1488 - 1576 Venice, Italy)
Title
Caricature of the Laocoön
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1540-1545
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/245648

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper, darkened
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
block: 29.3 × 42.6 cm (11 9/16 × 16 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, brown ink, not in the same hand at the inscription on the front of the print: This Burlesque of Titians, on the Laocoon, / It is said to have engraved in Wood himself. / It was / done, not in derision of the Antique, but of a copy of that famous...[cut by theright edge of the sheet] / which Baccio Bandinelli executed in 1525; and his countryman / panagyriste the Florentines, vaunted as equalling the original; / notwithstanding Titians degradation of the Figures of this Cap...[cut by the right edge of the sheet] / Apes, the Copy is said to have been a very rough thing, but ple...[cut by the right edge of the sheet] / [a line cut by the lower edge of the sheet gradually emerges because the lines of the inscription slant upwards]...in the very viole...[cut by the right edge of the sheet]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Randall Coll [underlined]
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    JOHN WITT RANDALL COLL. / HARVARD COLLEGE / no. 2915[number on a dotted line] [Lugt 2130]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Rosand & Muraro 40

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R2915
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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