The clemency of Scipio
Print
1611 (published)
1611 (published)
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Print depicting the clemency of Scipio. Taken from a design for a medallion.
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Title | The clemency of Scipio (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Engraving and etching |
Brief description | Print from the second book (consisting 36 prints) of 'De Excellentia et Nobilitate Delineationis Libri Duo'. Etching and engraving by Giovanni Battista Franco depicting the clemency of Scipio. Made after a design for a medallion by Giulio Romano. Published Venice, 1611. |
Physical description | Print depicting the clemency of Scipio. Taken from a design for a medallion. |
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Object history | This print is from the second book of 'De Excellentia et Nobilitate Delineationis Libri Duo', published by Giacomo Franco in Venice in 1611. The second book contains various subjects, mainly from Roman wall-paintings, reliefs and cameos, and has an etched frontispiece by Jacopo Palma. There are thirty-six engravings and etchings by Giovanni Battista Franco. Both the first and second books are quarter-bound in brown-calf parchment boards. The volume contains sixty-four plates on fifty-five sheets, four pages of letterpress, with two initial letters, a dedication to J. B. Duval, a discourse by the publisher, Giacomo Franco, and an epigram. The design for the medallion on which this print is based is in the Sala dei Venti, Palazzo del Te, Mantua. |
Production | Some of the prints in the second book were probably re-worked by Giacomo Franco. |
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Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964. |
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Accession number | E.944-1963 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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