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A Fantastic Barge Decorated with Dolphins and Carrying Musicians and Glaucus
Giulio Parigi (Italian, 1570–1635 or 1636)
about 1608
Medium/Technique
Black chalk and pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 13.5 x 19 cm (5 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jessie H. Wilkinson—Jessie H. Wilkinson Fund
Accession Number1998.407
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
DescriptionEtched by Remigio Cantagallina (1582–about 1630) as a barge "Argonautica" used in Battaglia Navale rapp. in Arno per le nozze de sermo Principipe di Toscana (Florence, 1608
Ref. Peter Fuhring, Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, London, 1989, no. 982
Ref. Peter Fuhring, Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, London, 1989, no. 982
InscriptionsInscribed in brown ink "Barcha Di Musici rapra Clauco Dio Marino e Tritoni", "tritoni", "clauco" and numbered "16" in a cartouche
ProvenanceLodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam; R.S. Johnson Fine Art, IL; acquired December 1998