2021.368: Death Giving Audience

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2021.368

People

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)

Title

Death Giving Audience

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Vari Capricci

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1743

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/370338

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching on off-white antique laid paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

sheet: 14.3 × 18 cm (5 5/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
mount: 21.5 × 26.1 cm (8 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left, in plate: Tiepolo
• inscription: versop, top left, graphite: 6 / J. l. D [?] / [illegible]
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: [illegible] 10. 2. 33
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: y box II / 61 F

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Rizzi 36

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection

Accession Year

2021

Object Number

2021.368

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Mariot F. Solomon and Harvard University Art Museums, "Look About You: A Tribute Not from a Scholar", Dear Print Fan: A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 309-311, pp. 309-311, fig. 1

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