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National Gallery of Art · Print
Animals from an Ancient Wall Painting [Plate III]
Italian 16th Century
- Date
- 1547-1577
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 30 × 41.1 cm (11 13/16 × 16 3/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2012.46.1.51
- 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: "Tabula III animalium ex vetustissimis picturis Romae tractorum. Formis Ant. Lafrerij"
NGA object ID 209826. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.