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A warrior wearing a plumed hat holding a staff and pointing to the left, from the series 'Figurine'

Artist:
Salvator Rosa (Italian, Arenella (Naples) 1615–1673 Rome)
Date:
ca. 1656–1657
Medium:
Etching and Drypoint
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 3 9/16 in. (14 × 9 cm)
Classification:
Prints
Credit Line:
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number:
17.50.17-119
Not on view
Inscription: Signed with the monogram "SR" in reverse in drypoint at lower right, inscribed in pen and ink at lower right: "30"
Earls of Pembroke (British)
Bartsch, XX.278.27; TIB Comment 4512.030 (second state of two); Theodoli 1992, no. 10; Wallace 1979, no. 10; Rotili 1974, no. 26
Adam von Bartsch Le Peintre graveur. Vienna, 1803.

Mario Rotili Salvator Rosa incisore. Societa' Editrice Napoletana, Naples, 1974.

TIB The Illustrated Bartsch - Commentary Volumes. 1978–.

Richard W. Wallace The Etchings of Salvator Rosa. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1979.

Olimpia Theodoli Salvator Rosa 1615-1673. Acqueforti. 1992.

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