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1930 Spagna Study of a Nude Male Model Lithograph

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1930 Spagna Study of a Nude Male Model Lithograph
Reference #: ULXX9171
Artist Name: Spagna, Giovanni
Title: Study of a Nude Male Model
Medium: Lithograph
Edition Size: 125
Year: 1930
Paper Size: 23.5 x 17.75 inches
Image Size: 9.75 x 6.25 inches
Condition: A: Mint
Notes: Drawings by Italian Masters of the XV-XVIII Centuries. From a selection of 40 facsimiles of the originals preserved in the Albertina Collection in Vienna. With an introduction and descriptive text by Joseph Meder, Late Director of the Albertina and edited in English Campbell Dodgson, M.A, C.B.E, Kepper of prints and drawings at the Britich Museum.
Published in London by BT Batsford Ltd, 94, High Holborn in 1930.
The edition for the British Empire and the United States of America is limited to 125 copies.
All rights of this work are the property of Anton Schroll & Co who are publishers of the German Edition. Printed in Austria.
Plate # 19 "Study of a Nude Male Model as a Design for a Mater Misericordiae", the Virgin spreading out her mantle, with separate studies of the hands and part of the mantle. Formerly ascribed to Leonardo, then to Sodoma, but rightly given by Oskar Fischel to Spagna.
The original was done in silver-point on paper (yellowed with age) with an ivory ground.