Accession number
PML 145850.99
Published
[Italy : s.n., 16--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Suggested attributions for this design identify it as either the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo or Carlo Urbino, with the engraved versions of this composition possibly derived from a copy by the latter of an original work by Arcimboldo. Cf. Ferino-Pagden.
Six lines of engraved verse in Italian below image: Che miri ò scioccho questa mia pittura ... Lungi dal suo costume antico, et empio.
Mounted as item 99 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy torn at corners with some loss to text.
Suggested attributions for this design identify it as either the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo or Carlo Urbino, with the engraved versions of this composition possibly derived from a copy by the latter of an original work by Arcimboldo. Cf. Ferino-Pagden.
Six lines of engraved verse in Italian below image: Che miri ò scioccho questa mia pittura ... Lungi dal suo costume antico, et empio.
Mounted as item 99 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy torn at corners with some loss to text.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: approx.: 190 x 150 mm; sheet: 234 x 163 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an anthropomorphic figure in profile, facing right, with features composed of cooking tools and utensils; with the caption title, "Cucina", engraved directly above the head of the figure.
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