Dedication to Carolo Theodoro with Apelles, 1771

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series Title

Architectural Fantasies

Medium

etching with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

page size: 37.6 × 52.5 cm (14 13/16 × 20 11/16 in.)
plate: 31.9 × 43.6 cm (12 9/16 × 17 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Florian Carr Fund

Accession Number

2014.176.10.1

Artists / Makers

Pietro Gaspari (artist) Italian, 1720 - 1785

Giuseppe Lante (artist) Italian, born 1726

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Inscription

on monument in image: SERENISSIMO ET POTENTISSIMO PRINCIPI / CAROLO THEODORO / COMITI PALATINO RHENI / S.R.I. ACHITEHES. ET ELECTORI BAVARIAE DUCI, / SCIENTIARUM, BONARUMQUE ARTIUM OMNIUM / CULTORI, ET FAUTORI EXIMIO / TABULAS HASCE AERE CUSAS / QUA VETERUM, QUA RECENTIORUM AEDIFICANDI RATIONEM / TUM QUAEDAM DELINEANDI ARTIS SPECIMINA EXHIBENTES / PETRUS GASPARI PICTOR VENETUS / DEMISSISSIME / DICAT. DEDICAT. CONSECCRAT. / VENETIIS ANNO MDCCLXXI.; lower left in plate: Petrus Gaspari Inv. Del. et Sculp.; lower center in plate: CUM PRIVILEGIO EXCELLENTISS. VENETIARUM SENATUS.; lower right in plate: Ioseph Lante hasce Figuras Sculp.

Provenance

Cesare Morini, Milan; purchased by NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Bareggi, Silvana