Andrea Vacca Berlinghieri. Lithograph by Targioni after I. Migliavacca.

Juan de la Cosa, mortally wounded in Bahía de Cartagena de Indias by a poisoned arrow: a soldier standing next to him raises his sword while local inhabitants wielding burning arrows burn down huts in the background. Etching by I. Migliavacca after G. Marmocchi, 1842.

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 45.9 x 34 cm

David turns his eyes heaven-ward as he holds the upturned, severed head of Goliath by the hair. Line engraving by G. Garavaglia after I. Migliavacca after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 9.5 x 15.3 cm

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Migliavacca, Innocente, -1856

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David turns his eyes heaven-ward as he holds the upturned, severed head of Goliath by the hair. Line engraving by G. Garavaglia after I. Migliavacca after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

Andrea Vacca Berlinghieri. Lithograph by Targioni after I. Migliavacca.

Juan de la Cosa, mortally wounded in Bahía de Cartagena de Indias by a poisoned arrow: a soldier standing next to him raises his sword while local inhabitants wielding burning arrows burn down huts in the background. Etching by I. Migliavacca after G. Marmocchi, 1842.