About the Artwork
Emblem of Night
1764
Annibale Carracci (Artist) Italian, 1560-1609 Francesco Bartolozzi (Artist) Italian, 1727-1815
Engraving printed in brown ink on wove paper
Plate: 12 1/4 × 17 7/8 inches (31.1 × 45.4 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 × 19 3/4 inches (34.9 × 50.2 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S84
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Anibale Caracci inv. Inscribed, lower right: F. Bartolozzi Sculp. Londra 1764 Inscribed, in pencil, lower right corner: 712
Provenance
December 1885, Kissam Sale.1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Francesco Bartolozzi; after Annibale Carracci, Emblem of Night, 1764, engraving printed in brown ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S84.
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