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Aquatint of Carpaccio's "Arrival in Rome" from the "Legend of Saint Ursula" Giovanni De Pian

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    Artist/maker
    Giovanni De Pian (1764 - 1800) (artist, etcher)
    Francesco Galimberti (1755 - 1803) (etcher)
    after Vittore Carpaccio (1460/06 - 1525/06)
    Object type
    print
    Material and technique
    etching and aquatint on wove paper
    Dimensions
    354 x 399 mm (sheet)
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto, all engraved:
    within the image, bottom centre, as if on a sheet of paper: VICTORIS CARPA-|TIO VENETI OPVS.
    below the image, bottom left: Gio. de Pian del.
    below the image, bottom right: de Pian e Galimberti sul.
    along the bottom: Romę Urbs conspicitur, prope cujus moenia Syricius S[um]m[u]s Pontifex cernitur, et ad ejus pedes provoluti Principes Sponsi, ut bened:onem accipiant. [the 'onem' in superscript]
    Provenance

    Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1906; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    WA.RS.REF.111
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  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Reference no. 111

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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