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The Fire in the Borgo
between 1733 and 1803
Bernardino Nocchi (Artist) Italian, 1741-1812 Giovanni Volpato (Artist) Italian, 1733-1803 Raphael (Artist) Italian, 1483-1520 Calcografia Nazionale (Publisher) Italian
Engraving printed in black ink on wove paper
Plate: 4 7/8 × 29 1/2 inches (12.4 × 74.9 cm) Sheet: 29 1/4 × 43 inches (74.3 × 109.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S1216
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, as part of the image, upper left: RAPHAEL | SANCTIVS | PINX Inscribed, upper right: IN AEDIBVS | VATICA | NIS Inscribed, lower left: Bernardinus Nocchi delinavit Inscribed, lower right: Joannes Volpato sculpsit, et vendit Romae Inscribed, lower center: PIO SEXTO PONT. MAX. Inscribed, lower right: Joannes Volpato D.D.D. | VI Inscribed, in black ink, lower left corner: No 1216. The Fire in the Borgo in 847. - By - Giovanni Volpato.
Watermark: P.M. Drystamp, lower right corner of the plate mark: REGIA CALCOGRAFIA DI ROMA (Lugt 2144)
Provenance
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Giovanni Volpato; after Bernardino Nocchi; after Raphael, The Fire in the Borgo, between 1733 and 1803, engraving printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1216.
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