Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere
mid 1560s
Giorgio Ghisi
Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520–1582)
Prints
Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere, mid 1560s. Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520–1582), possibly after Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99–1546). Engraving; sheet: 24 x 13.4 cm (9 7/16 x 5 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1972.149
- Maker/Artist
- Ghisi, Giorgio
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- engraving
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24 x 13.4 cm (9 7/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: lower left, in plate: GMF ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: B 15 34 ; lower center, in graphite: H1600 ; lower right, in graphite: MKH ; lower right, verso, in graphite: [illegible] ; lower right, in pen and brown ink: [illegible]
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1972.149
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1972, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions, Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620, Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/3/97 - 10/26/97. "Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620."
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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