Georg Friedrich Schmidt, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Five Polichinelle
1750
Scroll
Georg Friedrich Schmidt, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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