The Rape of the Sabine Women, from Friezes Cherubino Alberti Polidoro da Caravaggio (after)

Artist	Cherubino Alberti Borgo San Sepolcro, 1553 – Rome, 1615 Polidoro da Caravaggio (after) Caravaggio, ca. 1499 – Messina, ca. 1543
Culture	Italian
Place of production	Italy
Object type	print
Medium, technique	paper, engraving
Dimensions	140 x 215 mm (sheet, trimmed)
Inventory number	5834
Collection	Prints and Drawings
On view	This artwork is not on display

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Signed lower right: ‘CA’ and inscribed in the margin: ‘POLYDORVS DE CARAVAGIO INVENT/ Romulidae spreti ludi connubia quaerunt/Dum cadit in quasuis rapta Sabina manus/a Paris chez Le Blond rue est Jaques a la Cloche d’Argent’

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