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Identification and Creation
Object Number
R9001
People
Pellegrino dal Colle, Italian (1737 - 1812)
After Etienne Aubry, French (Versailles 1746 - 1781 Versailles)
Published by Vallardi Brothers
Title
Game of Cards
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/245501
Location
Level 2, Room 2220, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, Rococo and Neoclassicism in the Eighteenth Century
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Physical Descriptions
Medium
Engraving on cream antique laid paepr
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
image: 19.4 × 26.4 cm (7 5/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
plate: 22.8 × 29.3 cm (9 × 11 9/16 in.)
sheet: 27.6 × 36.7 cm (10 7/8 × 14 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, in plate: P. de Colle sculp. ap. Cavalli Venetijs. / Invitat genialis hijems, curasque resolvit. / Virg. Geor. lib. I.
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: Aubrij pinx. / Frigoribus parto Agricole plerumque fruuntur / Mutuaque inter se lęti convivia curant;
  • inscription: lower center, in plate: Milano presso P.e G. Vallardi C. S. Margherita N.1101
Provenance
John Witt Randall, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, his sister, gift; to Harvard University, 1892
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R9001
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/16/2020 - 06/30/2021

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