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The Coastline near Torre di Magnavacca at Comacchio

Gaspar van Wittel
1652 or 1653-1736

The Coastline near Torre di Magnavacca at Comacchio

12 1/2 x 19 15/16 inches (318 x 506 mm)
Graphite on paper.
1983.25

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper center, by the artist, in brown ink, "Torre di magnavacca a Comacchio"; extensively annotated by the artist throughout the sheet, in graphite.
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "PA". Individual letters centered between chain lines.
Associated names
Cavaceppi, Bartolomeo, 1717-1799, former owner.
Pacetti, Vincenzo, 1746-1820, former owner.
Pacetti, Michelangelo, 1793-1865, former owner.
Fatio, Paul, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Scholz, Janos. "Emilian Bizarreries". In: Miscellanea I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam : Scheltema & Holkema, 1969, p. 36-38, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 316.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 346.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department