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The Fall of Icarus
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The Fall of Icarus

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 11 13/16 × 8 5/16 in. (30 × 21.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1971

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giuseppe Diamantini

1621–1705Republic of Venice

Comment on works: Religious; Mythology; History

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