'Anno 1690' (the Year 1690), with numerous warring figures clambering on and hanging from the numbers, allusions to the Allegories of the Four Elements and the Four Continents

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

'Anno 1690' (the Year 1690), with numerous warring figures clambering on and hanging from the numbers, allusions to the Allegories of the Four Elements and the Four Continents

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

Date
ca. 1690
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 8 1/8 × 12 5/16 in. (20.7 × 31.2 cm) Sheet: 9 9/16 × 13 11/16 in. (24.3 × 34.8 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
2016.313
Credit line
Purchase, Christie's Inc. Gift, 2016

Artist information

Italian, Bologna (?) 1634–1718 Bologna

Subjects and terms

  • Battles
  • Cannons
  • Men
  • Flags
  • Horses

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