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Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum

• Object type

  • print

• Museum number

  1972,U.923.37

• Title (series)

  • Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum

• Description

  Two nude men wrestling, with trees and a classical building in the background; after a marble statue, shown here with the restorations (heads, right arm), formerly in the Medici collection, now in the Uffizi. 1638 Etching

• Producer name

  • Print made by: François Perrier

• School/style

  • French

• Date

  • 1638

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • etching

• Dimensions

  • Height: 184 millimetres
  • Width: 173 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Signed on plate with monogram; numbered on plate: '36'.

• Curator's comments

  From a series reproducing statues then located in Rome, see 1895,1031.28 for comment on set.
  This particular plate and the rest of the set are bound in an album (see 1972,U.922.1).

• Bibliography

  • Robert-Dumesnil 1835-71 VI.181.77

• Location

  Not on display (161*.b.2)

• Subjects

  • wrestling/wrestler
  • sculpture
  • classical sport

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1972,U.923.37