Roma - Museo Vaticano. La Pudicizia. forse un'Augusta (Rome - Vatican Museum. Modesty. Perhaps an Augusta)

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Roma - Museo Vaticano. La Pudicizia. forse un'Augusta (Rome - Vatican Museum. Modesty. Perhaps an Augusta)
Roma - Museo Vaticano. La Pudicizia. forse un'Augusta (Rome - Vatican Museum. Modesty. Perhaps an Augusta)
Artist/Maker
Publisher (Italian, founded 1852)
Date1875-1900
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsOverall: 10 × 7 3/8 in. (25.4 × 18.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of James Garfinkel, Class of 1980; Transferred from the Art History Department
Object numberS2018.2.551
Not on view
DescriptionPhotograph of an antique sculpture of Modesty, also known as the Veiled Truth in the Vatican Museum.
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Alternate Titles Pudicitia
Provenance 2018: Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, by transfer from the Art History Department;
likely by 1985 - 2018: Hamilton College (Art History department), by gift of James Garfinkel;
c. 1981-85: James Garfinkel, likely by purchase at auction in London.
Inscribed Recto, bottom margin: "(Edne. Alinari) Pe. la. No. 6646. ROMA - Museo Vaticano. La Pudicizia. forse un Augusta. (Scultura antica.)"
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