Study for Print of Ugolino and His Sons in the Torre della Fame Prison Artist: Luigi Sabatelli (Italian, 1772–1850)

1793–1795

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Pen and brown ink over graphite

Dimensions

sheet: 9 7/16 × 15 1/4 in. (23.9 × 38.7 cm)

Credit Line

Partial gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson and purchased with the Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

Accession Number

2023.38.139

Culture

Italian

Period

18th century

Classification

Drawings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
With Mattia Jona La Portantina, Milan, by 2004 [see note 1]; sold to Roberta J.M. Olson and Alexander Johnson, New York, 2004; partial gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2022

Note 1: Email correspondence from Alexander Johnson to the Gallery, August 12, 2022, copy in curatorial file
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

studies (visual works)

Marks

Unidentified watermark at center

Inscriptions

Lower center, in brown ink: Studio p– la Morte del Conte Ugolino Gherardeschi

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