Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 1765
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 96, 3
Notes:
Probably two of the seven etchings by Arthur Pond (1701-1758), after original drawings by Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (1503–1540), called Parmegionino, from the series "Prints in Imitation of Drawings" (1735)
Nos. 54-60 in Henry M. Hake, "Pond’s and Knapton’s Imitations of Drawings," Print Collector’s Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4 (1922): 324-340
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has four of the prints: Group of mathematicians disputing; Group of five figures; Holy family with St. John; and A philosopher reading, the first of which is pictured here.
