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A Magician Pointing to a Burning Head
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian (Venetian), 1696–1770)
about 1743
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 37.2 x 25.5 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Platemark: 22.5 x 18.6 cm (8 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 22.5 x 18.6 cm (8 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of W. G. Russell Allen and the George Reed Nutter Fund
Accession Number45.105
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Knox 13, his "unrecorded early state," with the 8 mm blank margin at the left; Rizzi 7, i/ii; de Vesme 16, i/ii (Knox is incorrect that this is an unrecorded early state, since second state impressions, with the number, still have this blank margin)
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceM. Knoedler & Co., New York; from whom purchased February 8, 1945