PrintsItalian17th century
True Depiction of a Flea, Seen through a Microscope
1686
Artists
Unidentified ArtistArtist
Pietro LucatelliArtist
Dimensions
plate: 26.2 x 32.9 cm (10 5/16 x 12 15/16 in.) sheet: 34.2 x 39.4 cm (13 7/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
Provenance
[Unidentified auction, Gonnelli, Italy, November 29, 2022], sold; to [Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, Mass], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022
Related Artworks
View MorePrints
Winter
Pietro Testa, 16th century
16th centuryItalian
Prints
Letter F
Anonymous France 1599, 16th century
16th centuryFrench
Prints
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 18th century
18th centuryItalian
Prints
Giovanni Boccaccio
Raphael Morghen, 18th-19th century
18th-19th centuryItalian
Prints
Landscape
Mathias Gottfried Eichler, 18th-19th century
18th-19th centuryGerman
Prints
Tobias Frightened by the Fish
Moyses Matheusz van Uyttenbroeck, 1620
17th centuryDutch
Prints
"Sun of Venice" Going to Sea
John Henry Hill, 19th-20th century
19th-20th centuryAmerican
Prints
John Banfi
Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, discolored to cream
17th centuryBritishPrints
Peonies, from the Kōrin gafu (Kōrin Picture Album)
Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中, 1802
Woodblock-printed book (28 detached leaves); ink and color on paper
19th centuryJapanesePrints
Courbet
Étienne Gabriel Bocourt, 19th century
19th centuryFrench
Prints
Infant Bacchus
Giuseppe Camerata, 18th century
18th centuryItalian
Prints
The Unsafe Tenement
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1858
Etching printed in black ink on tan Japanese paper, light struck
19th centuryAmerican