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Fishing [La pesca]

Antonio Fontanesi · 1864

Antonio Fontanesi: Italian, 1818 - 1882

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Fishing [La pesca]

1864

etching on chine collé, proof before letters · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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etching on chine collé, proof before letters
Dimensions
sheet: 36.4 × 28 cm (14 5/16 × 11 in.) plate: 25.6 × 18.8 cm (10 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Collection no.
2013.30.18
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By the artist
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Antonio Fontanesi. Fishing [La pesca]. Antonio Fontanesi; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_Fontanesi,_Fishing_(La_pesca),_1864,_NGA_160886.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Fishing [La pesca] — Antonio Fontanesi. 1864.

Medium: etching on chine collé, proof before letters.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 36.4 × 28 cm (14 5/16 × 11 in.) plate: 25.6 × 18.8 cm (10 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2013.30.18. Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Antonio Fontanesi. Fishing [La pesca]. Antonio Fontanesi; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_Fontanesi,_Fishing_(La_pesca),_1864,_NGA_160886.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.