Caritas Romana (Cimon and Pero)
Prints and Drawings
Artist | |
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Culture | Italian |
Place of production | Italy |
Date | 1563 |
Object type | |
Medium, technique | paper, engraving (copy in reverse, second or later state of four) |
Dimensions | 352 x 248 mm (sheet, trimmed close to platemark) |
Inventory number | 7325 |
Collection | Prints and Drawings |
On view | This artwork is not on display |
copy in reverse, second or later state of four
Inscribed on a tablet lower right: ‘LVCA/PENNIS/R/INVEN’ and with publisher’s address: ‘NN exc’, signed with monogram and dated: ‘GASP. F/MDLXIII’, inscribed in the margin: ‘IN SYLVIS HABITANS AB AMORIS CARCERE LIBER/CREDIDERAM DEMENS VIVERE POSSE DIV.//SED DEVS ILLE POTENS HOMINV CONFVDERE MENE/HANC VT AMEM NOLENS, VVLT HVMERISQ FERA’, and with publisher’s address: ‘Ant. Lafrerij Formis’
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