Vuë du fameux Chataignier de l'Etna...(View of the Famous Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna, called Centum Cavalli)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

François Alix

Title

Vuë du fameux Chataignier de l'Etna...(View of the Famous Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna, called Centum Cavalli)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1774–1796

Medium

Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered, in lower margin, in plate: at left "Gravée par Allix"; at center "Vuë du fameux Chataignier de l'Etna, connu sous le nom des/ Centum Cavalli/ Dessiné d'après Nature par Chatelet"; at right "Les Figures Gravees par Berteaux"; below left "No 21. Sicile"; below right "A.P.D.R."

Dimensions

Image: 24.4 × 35.5 cm (9 5/8 × 14 in.); Plate: 28.3 × 38 cm (11 3/16 × 15 in.); Sheet: 30.2 × 38.5 cm (11 15/16 × 15 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Tillie C. Cohn Fund Income #2

Reference Number

1967.382

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