Scholars Consulting Books and a Globe, c. 1747

Not on View

Anamorphoses, plate 2

etching, hand-colored with watercolor and gouache, on laid paper

plate: 20.4 × 29.7 cm (8 1/16 × 11 11/16 in.)

sheet: 23.2 × 33.1 cm (9 1/8 × 13 1/16 in.)

2014.176.1

Giovanni Francesco Costa (artist) Venetian, 1711 - 1773

lower center in plate: Costa; lower left of plate: 2; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 109

Cesare Morini, Milan (d. 2013); (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Bareggi, Silvana
Morini, Cesare

2005: Una Venezia di carta: La città dei Dogi all'epoca di Canaletto e Tiepolo, Capolavori di una collezione di incisioni veneziane del Settecento, cat. by Antonia Nessi, Cabinet Cantonal des Estampes, Musée Jenisch, Vevey; Institut d'histoire de l'art et de muséologie, Université de Neuchâtel; Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, 2005-2006, no. 25.

2018: Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.