Artist: Annibale Carracci (Italian, 1560–1609).
Engraver: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Italian, 1634–1718).
Title: The Assumption of the Virgin. The painting is now in the Pinacoteca in Bologna.
Signed in plate: Joseph Ma Mitellus del et inc. Numbered top right: [Plate] 3. Lettered with title in bottom margin: Anibal Caraccius Bononiensis in ecclesia D.Francisci Bononiae pinxit.
Publisher: Gioseffo Longhi (Italian, 1620–1691).
Date: 1679.
Materials and Techniques: etching on laid paper.
Watermark: yes.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Trimmed to the image. Horizontal fold in the middle, multiple patches verso, holes. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Catalog Raisonne: A. Bartsch. Le Peintre graveur... T. XIX. p. 277. No. 17.
Part of: Bononiensium pictorum celebriores gloriae quaedam sacrae icones ... [Plate 3 from 12].
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum 1877,0310.103.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: Italian School XVII C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from the catalog entry and uses the catalog description of the same item from the collection of the British Museum.