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Plate 24 from Suite des Vases Tirée du Cabinet de Monsieur Du Tillot Marquis de Felino
1764
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 43.6 x 27.6 cm (17 3/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Platemark: 22.4 x 16.8 cm (8 13/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
Platemark: 22.4 x 16.8 cm (8 13/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Vershbow
Accession Number1987.406
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
from Le Blanc 145-179; Guilmard 1880, p.225
DescriptionSuite of Vases from the collection of Monsieur du Tillot, Marquis of Felino, Milan, Joachin Bettalli, 1764, 33 leaves, title page in engraved script, etched pictorial title, etched didication (numbered plate 1), and 30 etched vases (numbered plates 2-31) On fine white antique laid paper; Watermark (for example plates l, 6, 10, 17, 23, 25, 27, 28, 31): VB. stored in 18 in. blue box. Lit.: Le Blanc, 1854-56, 1:483, nos. 145-79 Guilmard, 1880, p. 225. Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung, 1894, p. 118 no. 699. Regency to Empire, French Printmaking 1715-1814, no. 58 (with further bibliography).
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Vershbow, Newton Centre, Massachusetts; their gift to the MFA June 24, 1987