Il Padre concina nemico delle commedie Artist: Pier Leone Ghezzi (Italian, 1674–1755)

1754

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Pen and brown ink over indications in black chalk

Dimensions

sheet: 12 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (31.7 × 22.2 cm)

Credit Line

Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

Accession Number

2014.74.1

Geography

Made in Italy

Culture

Italian

Period

18th century

Classification

Drawings

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Provenance
From a volume of caricatures executed by Ghezzi in Rome and possibly also at the court of Charles, King of Naples, between 1734 and 1759 (the title page of the volume is dated 1780), the volume remained in the Spanish Royal Collection until the Battle of Vittoria in 1813; seized by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1813); by descent to the 7th Duke; voumes dis-bound in 1971.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 71
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

Watermark: fleur de lys in a double circle

Inscriptions

LL corner of sheet in pen and brown ink: Il Padre concina nemico / delle commedie; LR corner of sheet in pen and brown ink: CAVALIER. GHEZZI FECE, 1754 / P. CONCINA. DOMENICANO CHE STAMP / CONTO. I. TEATRI. E. LE COMEDIE; UR corner of mount in pen and brown ink: 65; Lower margin of mount in pen and brown ink: I/P Concina Teologo, e Scrittore Domenican

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