National Gallery of Art · Print
Acanthus Scrolls
Italian 16th Century, published by Antonio Lafreri
- Date
- 1561
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 29.2 × 43.8 cm (11 1/2 × 17 1/4 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2012.46.1.26
- Credit line
- The Ahmanson Foundation
- Time span
- 1551 to 1600
- Department
- CG-E
Portfolio and series
- Series
- Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)
Subjects and terms
- etching
- engraving
- Roman
- Classical
- Antiquity
Provenance
Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.
Inscription
Lettered across center: "Sic Romae visuntur intercolumniorum folia mira diligentia ex antigrapho antiquo quod hodie in aedibus Andreae quondam Card. a Valle integro marmore conspicitur desumpta ... Ant. Lafr. Squan. Romae MDLXI"
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