Animals from an Ancient Wall Painting [Plate III]

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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
Print
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"

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