Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Title Plate
1750s, printed after 1778
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.)
Portfolio/Series
Title plate from the series "Scherzi di Fantasia"
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.
Artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696-1770
Italian, 1696-1770
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