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accession number:	2023.19.3
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Suite of the Most Notable Things Seen by John Wilkins Erudite English Bishop during His Famous Voyage from the Earth to the Moon … dedicated to Sir William Hamilton ambassador to the Court of Naples: A new device to cleave wild beasts from Head to Tail, about 1769. Filippo Morghen (Italian, 1730–after 1807), possibly after Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (French, 1735–1813). Etching; image and plate: 28.2 x 38.9 cm (11 1/8 x 15 5/16 in.); sheet: 42 x 53.1 cm (16 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Estate of Muriel Butkin, 2023.19.3

title:				A new device to cleave wild beasts from Head to Tail
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series:				Suite of the Most Notable Things Seen by John Wilkins Erudite English Bishop during His Famous Voyage from the Earth to the Moon … dedicated to Sir William Hamilton ambassador to the Court of Naples
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creation date:			about 1769
creation date earliest:		1764
creation date latest:		1774
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creditline:			Purchased with funds from the Estate of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	Italy
technique:	etching
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Filippo Morghen (Italian, 1730–after 1807)  - artist
Italian draftsman and printmaker, 1730-after 1807
* Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (French, 1735–1813) 

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measurements: Image and Plate: 28.2 x 38.9 cm (11 1/8 x 15 5/16 in.); Sheet: 42 x 53.1 cm (16 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Imagination in the Age of Reason
	opening date:   2024-09-28T04:00:00
	<i>Imagination in the Age of Reason</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 28, 2024-March 2, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	with Benjamin Spademan Rare Books, London, England
	date: ?–2022
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	(Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 2022–23
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 6, 2023–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	McColley, Grant, “The Three Editions of Filippo Morghen’s Raccolta,” The Art Bulletin (Mar., 1937).
	page number: 	Vol. 19, No. 1: pp. 112-118.
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	Jenkins, Ian and Kim Sloan. Vases and Volcanoes. Sir William Hamilton and His Collection. London: British Museum Press, 1996.
	page number: 	cat. 41, p. 163.
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	Guthke, S. Karl, “Nightmare and Utopia: Extraterrestrial Worlds from Galileo to Goethe,” Early Science and Medicine 2003.
	page number: 	Vol. 8, No. 3: pp. 173-195, see p. 192-193.
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IMAGES

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