About this artwork
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artist:Salvator Rosa (1615 - 1673) Italian
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title:The Preaching of Jonah to the People of Nineveh
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Pen and brown ink on paper (foxed)
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measurements:20.00 x 27.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy transferred 1910
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accession number:D 770
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Salvator Rosa
Salvator Rosa
A painter, etcher, satirical poet and musician, Rosa was one of the most original and extravagant artistic personalities in seventeenth-century Italy. He trained in his native city, probably initially with his brother-in-law Francesco Fracanzano, and then with the battle painter Aniello Falcone....