Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Allegory of Poverty

Pietro della Vecchia
1602 or 3-1678

Allegory of Poverty

7 7/8 x 11 9/16 inches (200 x 293 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, on laid paper; corners cut diagonally lined to old mount.
1987.41

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower-left center, in pen and brown ink, "Piero Vecchia"; at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "Piero Vechia[sic]"; and at lower right of mount, in pen and black ink, "Piero Vecchio No[o superscript] I".
Associated names
Bateson, William, 1861-1926, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
One Hundred Italian Drawings from the 14th to the 18th Centuries from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : New School Art Center, 1971, no. 93.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department