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Possibly by an Emilian artist

Death of Virginia,

Engraving on laid paper

Print impression quality: Very good

Dimensions (Plate): 235 x 295 mm (9.3 x 11.6 in.)

Dimensions (Sheet): 243 x 301 mm (9.6 x 11.9 in.)

Dimension notes: sheet height is irregular, 243 mm. at left and 240 mm. at right; plate height is irregular, 235 mm. at left and 233 mm. at right

Edition: Only three other known impressions known in the United States

Accession number: 1939.D1.184

Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1939

Provenance / Collectors' marks: Friedrich August II, 1797–1854, King of Saxony (Lugt 971)

Bibliography: Hind F-15 (vol. 1, p. 284; plate 470); Bartsch 5 (vol. 13, p. 108); National Gallery of Art, Early Italian Engraving, cat. 190; Richard S. Field, ed., A Census of Fifteenth-century Prints in Public Collections of the United States and Canada (New Haven, CT: Print Council of America, 1995).

Work Type: print

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