Court of the Former State Inquisitors, 1797

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series Title

I Pozzi e i Piombi di Venezia (The Wells and Leads of Venice) [plate 8]

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.7 × 30.2 cm (9 5/16 × 11 7/8 in.)

sheet: 27.9 × 34.9 cm (11 × 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2019.137.8

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: Galimberti dissegno; in plate, below image, at right: de Pian scul.; in plate, below image, at center: Tribunale degli ex Inquisitori di Stato / Lunghezza della stanza piedi Veneti 17 1/2 Lunghezza 13 altezza 11 No. 8; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 582; by later hand, upper left verso in pen and brown ink: 8 [in circle]; 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.