Raphael Morghen, Vincenzo Gozzini, Firmin Didot
Giovanni Boccaccio
1821
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Raphael Morghen, Vincenzo Gozzini, Firmin Didot
Giovanni Boccaccio
1821
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 525 × 375 mm. (20 11/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
Plate: 328 × 230 mm. (12 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Image: 220 × 160 mm. (8 11/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12860
Engraved for the folio edition of the "Decamerone" (Paris: Didot, 1816) 4 vols. Intended as a companion to the portraits of Aristotle, Dante, Petrarch, and Tasso.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; T. Harrison Garrett (L. 2435b), by purchase; James L. Claghorn (L. 555c) by purchase.
Palmerini, Niccolo. "Opere d'intaglio del cav. Raffaello Morghen" (Florence: Presso Niccolo Pagni, 1824): cat. 243.
Le Blanc, Charles. "Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des gravures toutes les nations[...]" (Paris: Emile Bouillon, 1854-1888): vol. 3, cat. 122.
Apell, Aloys. "Handbuch fur Kupferstichsammler, oder Lexicon der vorzuglichsten Kupferstecher des XIX. Jahrhunderts welche in Linienmanier gearbeitet haben, sowie Beschreibung ihrer besten und gesuchtesten Blatter" (Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1880): cat. 80i.
Halsey, Frederic Robert. "Raphael Morghen's engraved works, being a descriptive catalogue" (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1885): cat. 23i.
Le Blanc, Charles. "Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des gravures toutes les nations[...]" (Paris: Emile Bouillon, 1854-1888): vol. 3, cat. 122.
Apell, Aloys. "Handbuch fur Kupferstichsammler, oder Lexicon der vorzuglichsten Kupferstecher des XIX. Jahrhunderts welche in Linienmanier gearbeitet haben, sowie Beschreibung ihrer besten und gesuchtesten Blatter" (Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1880): cat. 80i.
Halsey, Frederic Robert. "Raphael Morghen's engraved works, being a descriptive catalogue" (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1885): cat. 23i.
Signed: 1
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett