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King Pyrrhus, from the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Jacob Bos Antonio Salamanca (publisher)

Artist

Jacob Bos ’s-Hertogenbosch, ca. 1520 – Rome, 1549/1580

Antonio Salamanca (publisher) Salamanca?, 1478 – Rome, 1562

Culture Italian
Date 1562
Object type print
Medium, technique engraving on paper
Dimensions

456 x 304 mm

Inventory number 32058
Collection Prints and Drawings
On view This artwork is not on display

Inscriptions

Signed lower right: ‘Iacobus Bossius Belga incidit’ and inscribed in the lower margin: ‘Pyrrhi Molossorum regis Imperatorum sui temporis fortissimi et rei militaris peritissimi ducis Simulachrum, quod Romae in porticu domus Maximi Archiepiscopi Amalphitanorum situm Ant. Salamanca aeneis typis suis delineavit et publicae studiosrum utilitati Anno DLXII. in lucem misit.’

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