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MARTIN ESSLINGER (1793-1841)

The bust of a woman [after Sebastiano del Piombo's 'Dorothea']

c.1813-1831

Engraving | 10.4 x 11.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852119

A print of the head of the so-called 'Dorothea', a painting by Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1512-13) formerly in the collection of the Duke of Marloborough at Blenheim, and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no.295B); reproduced in reverse, in an oval.

  • Creator(s)

    Martin Esslinger (1793-1841) (engraver)

    After Sebastiano Del Piombo (1485-1547) (artist)

  • 10.4 x 11.0 cm (sheet of paper)

    8.3 x 7.0 cm (image, oval)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp.144-7, no.22 (Sebastiano del Piombo 1485-1547 : edited by Claudio Strinati, Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, 2008)

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