Daedalus and Icarus

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Prints and Drawings

early 1530s

Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano
Italian, c. 1499-1546

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giulio Romano
Title: Daedalus and Icarus
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1530–1535
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, over incising, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "184"; lower center on mount, in graphite: "Daedalus and Icarus / from the Collections of / Count Bianconi, T. Dimsdale + Sir. T Lawrence."; upper right on mount, in graphite: "117"
Dimensions: 34.3 × 26.4 cm (13 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.96
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Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House (London, 1898), no. 7.

London, Lawrence Gallery, Fifth Exhibition, nos. 1 and 3.

Count Bianconi [London 1972 auc. cat.]. Thomas Dimsdale (1758–1823) [his stamp (Lugt 2426) verso, lower left on mount, in black]. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) [his dry stamp (Lugt 2445) recto, lower left]; Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1857) [his stamp (Lugt Suppl. 2710b) recto, lower center, in black]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, December 5, 1972, lot 61, to Robert M. Light, Boston, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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