Captures the sfumato effect beautifully
Artist: Girolamo Mantelli (fl. about 1785-1793) after Cesare da Sesto (1477-1523)
Title: Salome
Date: 1785
School: Italian, XVIIIth-century
Medium: soft-ground etching with roulette and some engraving, printed in red ink on laid paper
Dimensions: 422 x 320mm (plate), 465 x 335mm (sheet)
Watermark: BASEL (see image below)
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate upper left <<Ces.e da Sesto invdel:/Hier Mantelli sculp:>>
Condition: good condition, a few spots of foxing, some shaving of verso where stuck down at an earlier time.
Description: Salome, plate 25 from Girolamo Mantelli, Raccolta di disegni incise….Milano, 1785, a book of 27 plates illustrating drawings by Leonardo and his School in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana in Milan.
Reference: see Royal Academy collection 06/5217 for a description of the publication
