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Hubert François Gravelot
1699-1773
Eighteen drawings for Alessandro Tassoni's "Secchia rapita"
[ca. 1766]
5 3/4 x 3 7/16 inches (146 x 88 mm) or smaller
Pen and ink and pencil on paper, mounted on paper backing.
2003.22
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Drawings by Gravelot for an edition of Alessandro Tassoni's "Secchia rapita," published in Paris by L. Prault and P. Durand in 1766.
All drawings have blackened versos and stylus marks for transfer to copper plates.
Drawings comprising this group have also been cataloged individually.
All drawings have blackened versos and stylus marks for transfer to copper plates.
Drawings comprising this group have also been cataloged individually.
Inscriptions/Markings
Ten of the eighteen drawings signed "H. Gravelot inven" at lower right.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Bibliography
Kraemer, Ruth S. "Drawings by Gravelot for Alessandro Tassoni's mock-heroic poem La secchia rapita." Master drawings, XXVIII (Autumn 1990), p. 338-343.
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Century Drawings
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