Wilton album, folio 52b: The Annunciation
On folio 52 with one other print: 27.78.1(176)
For more information on the Wilton album see entry for 27.78.1(1-428)
This etching, the last one to be dated by Salimbeni, is related to a large fresco the painter-etcher executed for the upper nave walls of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 1593-94 (for which see Ciampolini 2010, p. 760). However, some details of the print are closer to two preparatory drawings for the composition: a figure study in the Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati in Siena (inv. no. S.III.3, 14r c) and a second, more finished drawing of the whole composition, in reverse orientation, at the Louvre (inv. no. 1638r; 296 x 156 mm).
The plate was first published by the Rome-based Flemish publisher Statius, but the state of this strong impression is indeterminate because the lower margin with its inscriptions was trimmed off
For more information on the Wilton album see entry for 27.78.1(1-428)
This etching, the last one to be dated by Salimbeni, is related to a large fresco the painter-etcher executed for the upper nave walls of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 1593-94 (for which see Ciampolini 2010, p. 760). However, some details of the print are closer to two preparatory drawings for the composition: a figure study in the Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati in Siena (inv. no. S.III.3, 14r c) and a second, more finished drawing of the whole composition, in reverse orientation, at the Louvre (inv. no. 1638r; 296 x 156 mm).
The plate was first published by the Rome-based Flemish publisher Statius, but the state of this strong impression is indeterminate because the lower margin with its inscriptions was trimmed off
Artwork Details
- Title: Wilton album, folio 52b: The Annunciation
- Artist: Ventura Salimbeni (Italian, Siena 1568–1613 Siena)
- Date: 1594
- Medium: Etching with engraving
- Dimensions: 11 1/16 × 6 11/16 in. (28.1 × 17 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
- Object Number: 27.78.1(177)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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