The Pifferari playing before the Virgin, Rome / Unknown artist [artwork]
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- Title
- The Pifferari playing before the Virgin, Rome [artwork]
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date Created
- 19th century
- Genre
- artwork
- Physical Description
- Sheet: 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (54.5 x 37.0 cm.); image: 15 5/8 x 12 inches (39.5 x 30.5 cm.)
- Artist notes
- after a painting by Sir David Wilkie, painter and etcher, 1785-1841
- Artist nationality
- Unknown
- Original artist
- Wilkie, David, 1785-1841
- Inscription
- Recto: l. l.: (within image) The Pifferari playing before / the Virgin ; l. r.: (within image) Rome / D. Wilkie ; top center: (in pencil) B ; l. l.: (in pencil) Italie Ritti. Nov. 24. 1925 30 fcs $1.20 ; bottom center: (in pencil) Pifferari devant la madone ; verso: l. l.: (in pencil) C575/579
- Medium
- Chalk lithograph, sepia-toned, with white highlights.
- Condition
- Fair to good condition. Adhesive tape stains at upper and lower corners of left edge. Light staining and foxing in margins and on verso. Small top and bottom edge tears have been mended, as well as loss at upper right corner of sheet.
- Provenance
- Paul Ritti, Librairie Ancienne et Moderne, Paris, 24 Nov. 1925.
- Instrument
- Piffaro, Bagpipe
- Century
- 19th century
- Subjects
- Reproductive print [after well-known artist]
- Religious
- Miller category
- Works of Art [General]
- Miller ID
- 0098/V
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 03-05-2014