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Animals from an Ancient Wall Painting [Table I]
Italian 16th Century, published by Antonio Lafreri
- Date
- 1547-1577
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 29.8 × 42.8 cm (11 3/4 × 16 7/8 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2012.46.1.50
- Credit line
- The Ahmanson Foundation
- Time span
- 1501 to 1550
- 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 LC: "Ex veteri hypocausto reperto prope vivarium Anno 1547 in quo elegantissime omnium animalium pictae effigies videbantur. Hae tractae sunt et in tres tabellas digestae. Tab. I. Formis Ant. Lafrerij"
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