The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A magician, a soldier and three figures watching a burning skull from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Date

ca. 1743–50

Medium

Etching; first state of two

Dimensions

Plate: 8 3/4 x 7 1/16 in. (22.3 x 17.9 cm) Sheet: 13 7/16 x 9 5/16 in. (34.2 x 23.6 cm)

Object type

Print

Classification

Prints

Object number

1976.537(22)

Credit line

Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund; Dodge and Pfeiffer Funds; Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Gift of Bertina Suida Manning and Robert L. Manning, 1976

The Met object ID 384212. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.