Twee tovenaars en twee jongens, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in or before c. 1750

Title(s)

Twee tovenaars en twee jongens
Scherzi di fantasia (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1950-662

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 26-1(2)
• Rizzi 17-1(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 218 mm × width 175 mm

What

• sorcerer, magician, wizard, warlock

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. 34, cat.nr. 19-1
• The etchings of the Tiepolos : complete edition, Aldo Rizzi, Lucia Wildt, p. 60, 61, cat.nr. 17-1
• Le Peintre-graveur italien : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch, p. 389, cat.nr. 26-1
• Jaco Rutgers, ‘The dating of Tiepolo’s Capricci and Scherzi’, Print Quarterly 23 (2006) 3, pp. 254-263