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Mauro Tesi
Drawings After Antique Sculpture and Motifs and Several Set Designs
Album: 14 1/16 x 10 5/8 inches (357 x 270 mm); drawings measure between 9 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches (235 x 175 mm) and 6 5/8 x 4 5/8 inches (168 x 117 mm)
Variously in red chalk, black chalk, and pen and brown ink over black chalk, on paper.
1982.75:632
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.
Inscriptions/Markings
Each drawing inscribed at lower right or lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Mauro Tesi"; each album page numbered at upper right, in blue chalk; Inscribed in title page, in red ink, "DISEGNI / DI / MAURO TESI"; below title inscription, in pen and dark brown ink, "Mauro Tesi nacque in Montalbano (Frignano) / il 15 Gennaio 1730 e mori in Bologna il 18 Luglio 1766 / Questo volume contenente N.o [o in superscript] 41 (quarantuno) disegni / del Tesi fu da me sottoscuitto acquitato dal libraio / Davide Toffoli, in Venezia nel Marzo dell'anno 1905 / Ferdinando Facoli."; inscribed on verso of penultimate leaf, a long passage on the life and career of Mauro Tesi, in pen and brown ink.
Associated names
Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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