Armed European men engaging with turban-wearing people with camels on the mountainous banks of a river. Engraving by E.P. Aubert after G. Gherardini after S. Rosa.

  • Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673.
Date:
[1844]
Reference:
3048802i
Part of:
Imperiale e reale Galleria di Firenze.
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About this work

Description

Two camels are shown in the foreground

Publication/Creation

[Florence] : Imp. e Rea. Gal. di Firenze ([Florence] : Ach. Paris imp.), [1844]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching, en chine ; platemark 26.4 x 38.7 cm

Lettering

Salvator Rosa dip. G. Gherardini dis. G. Aubert père inc. Mount bears blind stamp in oval: ... Imp. e Rea. Gal. di Firenze

Creator/production credits

According to Laron (op. cit., p. 199), Eugène-Pierre Aubert signed as Aubert père after 1840, but the initial given here as G is unexplained

References note

Not in: Jean Laran, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome premier, Paris 1930, works by (but mentioned on p. 199 as a work by Eugène-Pierre Aubert: "On cite de lui : Paysages, d'apr. Salv. Rosa et Joseph Vernet, S. 1844")
Luigi Salerno, L'opera completa di Salvator Rosa, Milan 1975, p. 88, no. 51 (as "Marina")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3048802i

Reproduction note

After: a painting in the Pitti Palace, Florence (Salerno, loc. cit.)

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