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Five Polichinelle
Public Domain

Georg Friedrich Schmidt and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Five Polichinelle

1750

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Five Polichinelle

1750

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 264 x 361 mm. (10 3/8 x 14 3/16 in.) Plate: 215 x 234 mm. (8 7/16 x 9 3/16 in.) Image: 189 x 220 mm. (7 7/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.7680
Five polichinelle; one urinating to left; another stirring a soup bowl into which to other clowns are blowing; another is standing in the shadow of a doorway to right; after a drawing by Tiepolo.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, center left, in plate "Tiepolo, del."; in image, lower center, in plate "GFSchmidt fec. aqua forti. / 1751"; below image, lower left, in graphite and brown ink indecipherable; below image, lower center, in red chalk(?) "B E"; below image, lower right, in brown ink "S2"; below image, lower right, in brown ink "5"; below image, lower right, in graphite "3" Verso: lower left in graphite "2-12"; lower right in graphite "E"; lower right in graphite indecipherable; lower right in red chalk(?) "P. 72 [crossed out in brown ink]"; lower right in brown ink "19"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett WM: shield with fleur-de-lys

Artist

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

1711–1774

German, 1712-1775
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Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1695–1769

Italian, 1696-1770
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