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A city under siege with elephants and soldiers throughout; Mars looking down from above; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A city under siege with elephants and soldiers throughout; Mars looking down from above; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

Ludovico Ottaviano Burnacini|Mathäus Küsel

Date
1668
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 10 5/16 × 17 3/16 in. (26.2 × 43.6 cm)
Object type
Print, Fete, Ornament & Architecture
Classification
Prints|Prints-Fete|Ornament & Architecture
Object number
53.600.3557
Credit line
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Italian, Mantua 1636–1707 Vienna (active Austria)|German, 1621–1682

Subjects and terms

  • Fortification
  • Battles
  • Soldiers
  • Mars
  • Elephants

The Met object ID 700478. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.