Magician Pointing to a Head on a Stake, with Other People Watching, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in or before c. 1750

Title(s)

Magician Pointing to a Head on a Stake, with Other People Watching

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1950-652

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 16-1(2)
• Rizzi 7-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Place

Italy

Dating

in or before c. 1750

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 224 mm × width 171 mm

What

• sorcerer, magician, wizard, warlock
• violent death by burning at the stake; pyre

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1950

Copyright

Public domain

• Etchings by the Tiepolos : Domenico Tiepolo's collection of the family etchings from an album in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York, Jean Sutherland Boggs, Elaine Evans Dee, George Knox, p. 32, cat.nr. 13
• The etchings of the Tiepolos : complete edition, Aldo Rizzi, Lucia Wildt, p. 40, 41, cat.nr. 7-1
• Le Peintre-graveur italien : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch, p. 386, cat.nr. 16-1
• Narcisse Tordoir : The pink spy, Bart De Baere, afb. p. 73
• Jaco Rutgers, ‘The dating of Tiepolo’s Capricci and Scherzi’, Print Quarterly 23 (2006) 3, pp. 254-263