The fate of an evil tongue; seven putti stand around an anvil on which they hammer a tongue, landscape and architecture behind
Nicoletto da Modena
ca. 1507 · Engraving printed in gray-blue ink · Drawings and Prints
Although printmakers traditionally used black ink, beginning in the mid-fifteenth century artists started experimenting with colored inks, particularly blue, green, brown, and red. The Italian printmaker Nicoletto da Modena printed a small number of his compositions using various shades of blue ink earlier in the century, making this impression quite rare.
- Artist
- Nicoletto da Modena
- Date
- ca. 1507
- Medium
- Engraving printed in gray-blue ink
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
