Head of Camel

Camel head is an etching by Stefano Della Bella executed in 17th century.

Monogrammed “SDB fec.”

Plate 8,1x8,5 cm; Sheet 11,3x11,8 cm

The state of preservation is good. The etching has good margins. Foxings and browning of the paper due to the time.

Stefano Della Bella was an Italian draughtsman and printmaker known for etchings of a great variety of subjects and he has left us over a thousand engravings. Della Bella worked mainly in Florence for the Medici family, for whom he created title pages, illustrations of feasts and views that enhance the Medici splendors.