Father Pepe Preaching to Sailors

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Title

Father Pepe Preaching to Sailors

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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Artist's working dates 1694–1755

Medium

Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper and edge-mounted on pale blue-green laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, upper right, in pen and brown ink: "37"; below image, in pen and brown ink: "Il P. Pepe in Roma predicando à Marinari di Ripa"; verso, lower center, in graphite: "709N"

Dimensions

48 × 38 cm (18 15/16 × 15 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1998.110

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