The Last Underground Prison: He Fell Dead into His Brother's Arms, 1797

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series Title

I Pozzi e i Piombi di Venezia (The Wells and Leads of Venice) [plate 6]

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 24 × 30.6 cm (9 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

sheet: 28.3 × 34.9 cm (11 1/8 × 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2019.137.6

Artists / Makers

Giovanni De Pian (artist) Italian, 1764 - 1800

Francesco Galimberti (artist after) Italian, 1755 - 1803

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, below image, at left: Galliberti del.; in plate, below image, at right: de Pian inc; in plate, below image, at center: Ultima Carcere Sotterracquea... / e cadde morto frà le bracia di suo Fratello senza poter terminare la letale sentenza / No. 6 Piedi 3 Veneti estratto dall'equatore pag. 30; in image, upper left: VIVA LORENZO OREFICE DI PADUA / VIVA ANDREA TARDIVELLO / HODIE MIHI CRAS TI; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 582; by later hand, upper left verso in pen and brown ink: 6; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Pian (De) Gio; c34

Provenance

(La Portantina di Mattia Jona, Milan); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

La Portantina di Mattia Jona

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.