print
- Museum number
- 1925,0422.2.16.+
- Title
- Series: Original Designs in his Majesty's Collection
- Description
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The heads and shoulders of four grotesque figures, all seen in profile; in the upper section a hideous female with a gigantic upper lip looks at an elderly man with a deformed chin; in the lower section a hunchbacked woman with a conical headdress faces a caricature of Dante who has an imbecilic grin; after Leonardo da Vinci. 1806
Etching with stipple; printed in sepia ink
- Production date
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1806
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1812 (publication date of volume)
- Dimensions
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Height: 261 millimetres
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Width: 206 millimetres (plate mark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See comment 1925,0422.2.1
A copy after Leonardo's grotesque heads is in the Royal Collection, Windsor, inv. 912492
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Original Designs of the Most Celebrated Masters of the Bolognese, Roman, Florentine and Venetian Schools
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,0422.2.16.+