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The image shows a man from the waist up, with a slightly turned body and his face towards the viewer. He has a long, pointed beard and mustache, with older features, and wears a decorative, domed headdress. He is clothed in a patterned robe with a high collar, buttons down the front, and holds a rolled document in his right hand. The background features a frame with scrolling foliage and decorative elements, with an emblem at the top showing a winged lion holding a book.
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The image shows a man from the waist up, with a slightly turned body and his face towards the viewer. He has a long, pointed beard and mustache, with older features, and wears a decorative, domed headdress. He is clothed in a patterned robe with a high collar, buttons down the front, and holds a rolled document in his right hand. The background features a frame with scrolling foliage and decorative elements, with an emblem at the top showing a winged lion holding a book.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Doge of Venice

Robert Vaughan

Medium
engraving
Dimensions
plate: 22.4 × 13.7 cm (8 13/16 × 5 3/8 in.)
Classification
Print · Historical Portrait
Accession number
1951.11.377
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • British
Provenance

W. B. Dukes [d. 1942], London, (L.2757a); (Sotheby, London, sale July 8, 1942, no. 112); Hermann Marx [d. 1948], Surrey, (L.2816a); (Sotheby, London, sale May 24, 1948, no. 165); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia, (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1951.

NGA object ID 40659. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.