Frontispiece, for Prospero Bonarelli's Il Solimano, tragedia (The Sultan, A Tragedy)
Jacques Callot, French, 1592 - 1635
1620
Etching with some engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 5/16 in. (19.1 × 13.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts, by exchange
PR.990.11.1
Publisher
Pietro Cecconcelli, Florence
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, below crescent, upper center: Quindi e'l mio lume offeso.; inscribed, in plate, on shiled, lower center: IL / SOLIMANO / TRAGEDIA / DEI CO. PROSPERO / BONARELLI / MO AI / SER. GRANDVCA / DI / TOSCA / NA; inscribed, in plate, lower left: Iac. Callot Fa. in aqua fort; inscribed, in plate, lower center: [indistinct] [traces of the earlier inscription]; Collector's mark, reverse, inscribed, in brown ink, lower center: C. Storch [?] a Milan 1797. / Ju. A.o. [o in superscript] 1785. A.o [o in superscript] 6.Sq [unidentified]; Watermark, lower center: [crescent moon] [rest indistinct]
Course History
ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2012
ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Winter 2015
Art History 20.04, Faith and Empire, Beth Mattison, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 11, 1995-January 8, 1996.
Provenance
Pia Gallo Fine Old Master and Modern Prints, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1990.
Catalogue Raisonne
Lieure 363; Meaume 434
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