Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Frontispiece
1749-1758
Scroll
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Frontispiece
1749-1758
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 548 x 382 mm. (21 9/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Plate: 228 x 182 mm. (9 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number
1938.466.1
Bought from Colnaghi's, London, 1937
"Rare Etchings by Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo", National Gallery of Art, January 25- April 23, 1972.
"The Early Modern Painter-Etcher," Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, April 15 - June 11, 2006 (traveled to Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL, July 1 - August 19, 2006; and Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, September 2- October 29, 2006.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
"The Early Modern Painter-Etcher," Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, April 15 - June 11, 2006 (traveled to Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL, July 1 - August 19, 2006; and Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, September 2- October 29, 2006.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Signed: One
Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: UR: "3"; C: "Scherzi di Fantasia No. 24/ del Celebres/ Sig. Gio. Batta Tiepolo Veneto Pitore/ morto in Madrid/ al Serviggio di S:M:C:/ Piu hà inc. una Adorazion de Remagi" Additional hand-written notations on the print RECTO: (graphite): LL: "Dev. 13II"; BLC: "K.9381/#10602/23"; BC: "Title Page to Scherzi di Fantasia/ DeV. 13 to 35 (Title and 22 plates) G. B. Tiepolo"; no verso.
