Object details
Accession number
2.a.2.1.x
Primary Creator
Italian, Venice
Full title
Seal from Commissione of Doge Francesco Donato to Vincenzo Gritti as Lieutenant of Udine
Creation Date
1546
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)
Marks
Inscribed:
recto: S.M.VENETVS / FRANC.DONATO / XAC
verso: FRAN / CISCVS / DONATO / DEIGRADUX / VENETIARX / ETC
Display Media
Metal with twill
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
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