Object details
Object number
2.a.2.1.x
Creator(s)
Italian, Venice
Title
Seal from Commissione of Doge Francesco Donato to Vincenzo Gritti as Lieutenant of Udine
Date
1546
Medium
Metal with twill
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed:
recto: S.M.VENETVS / FRANC.DONATO / XAC
verso: FRAN / CISCVS / DONATO / DEIGRADUX / VENETIARX / ETC
Provenance
Collection of Vincenzo Gritti (active around 1530-1547), Lieutenant of Udine, 1546-1547.
Collection of the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 3 July 1903 for $2,500. (with 19 Venetian manuscripts)
Commentary
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Gallery
Long Gallery
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