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One bound Set of engravings

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One bound set of engravings, untitled, unsigned, and undated (ca. 1780?). It is comprised of eight leaves of original engravings. The images are all portraits, some are single figures and others are multiple faces. The first is of a nude woman, and the engraved "label" reads "From the Venus de Medicis." The second plate is numbered "11" in the upper right-hand corner, and is comprised of three rows of heads: the top row shows four female heads in different positions, the middle row is 7 male heads from various angles, and the third row is comprised of 5 children's heads in different positions. The third plate is numbered "16" inthe lower right-hand corner; it is an image of a bearded man, side view. The fourth image is numbered "17" in the lower right-hand corner (the number is very faded); it is an image of a hooded man, gazing upward. The fifth plate is numbered "20" in the lower right-hand corner. This image is of a woman dressed in a fur-trimmed cloak wearing a double strand of pearls; she is looking down. The sixth plate contains two images of the same side view portrait of a woman; the image on the left is in outline form, the image on the right is the completed portrait. The engraving is signed "Anib. Carracche del." The seventh plate is also a double portrait of a young woman, this one is a three-quarters view and it is similarly signed "Annibal Caracci del." The eighth and last engraving is a full-frontal double-portrait of a young man with curly hair. This plate is signed "Anib. Carracche in." Title supplied by cataloger.
Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date
circa 1780?
Call number
ephKAEE
Creator
Korzenik, Diana (1941-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Diana Korzenik, August 1997.
transferred from Huntington Art Reference Library, May 2000.
purchased from Mike Kaplan, October 2000.
Associated people
Korzenik, Diana, (1941-)
Abbott, Jacob, (1803-1879,)
Abbott, John S. C. (1805-1877,)
Bartholomew, William N. (1822-1898,)
Coe, Benjamin H. (1799-1883,)
Coe, E. M. (1862-1944,)
Cross, Anson K. (1818-1894,)
Hodgman, Carolyn S., (1803?-1887,)
Knudsen, Carl Wilhelm, (1882-1942,)
Morgan, Lucius B., (1807-)
Nutting, B. F. (1887-1969,)
Sarg, Tony, (1836-1886,)
Schuster, Sigismond,
Shaw, Ruth Faison,
Smith, Walter,
Spofford, Mabel,
Spofford, Mabel,
Wright, Wynna,
Associated organizations
Faber-Castell (Firm)
American Crayon Company.
Binney & Smith Co.
D. Appleton and Company.
D. Lothrop & Company.
F.W. Devoe & C.T. Raynolds Company.
Eberhard Faber Pencil Company.
Ginn and Company.
Grout & Putnam.
Ivison & Phinney.
J.L. Hammett Co.
J.W. Schermerhorn & Co.
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company.
L. Prang & Co.
Little, Brown and Company.
McLoughlin Bros.
Milton Bradley & Co.
P.P. Caproni & Brother.
Prang Company.
Raphael Tuck & Sons.
Saalfield Pub. Co.
Transogram Company.
Wadsworth, Howland & Co.
Weber Costello Company.
Winsor & Newton.
Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth AG.
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