A slave carrying a yoke
Print
ca. 1550-1560 (engraved)
ca. 1550-1560 (engraved)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Adamo Scultori was a leading engraver, supplying the rapidly expanding market in mid-sixteenth-century Italy for prints of antique subjects and reproductions of paintings. This work resembles the style of the Mantuan court artist Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506).
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | A slave carrying a yoke |
| Materials and techniques | Engraving |
| Brief description | Engraving by Adamo Scultori of a slave carrying a yoke, ca.1550-60 |
| Physical description | An engraving of a standing male figure with both ankles bound and tied to a ball, with a yoke over his right shoulder. He turns to look over his left shoulder. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | SERVVS EO LAETIOR QVO PATIENTIOR (Engraved inscription at bottom of image) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides |
| Object history | Bequeathed by C.A. Ionides, 1900 |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Adamo Scultori was a leading engraver, supplying the rapidly expanding market in mid-sixteenth-century Italy for prints of antique subjects and reproductions of paintings. This work resembles the style of the Mantuan court artist Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506). |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CAI.430 |
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| Record created | April 2, 2008 |
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