print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 1850,0810.749
- Title
- Series: Signorum Veterum Icones
- Description
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Statue of Athena wearing a garment with a high belt and an aegis bearing the gorgoneion around her neck; she carries a shield in her left arm and holds up a stick in her right hand whilst looking at left; front view
Etching
- Production date
- 1672-1689 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 223 millimetres
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Width: 108 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Size, present state and whereabouts are unknown. The etching was made after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn III, which was in the possession of Jan Wtenbogaert in Amsterdam. Neither this drawing nor any intermediary drawings by De Bisschop have been traced. In his list of contents and locations De Bisschop says about this plate: "Bellona, the statue, which is in Cavalieri as quoted above, fig. 60 of the first 100 plates, seems formerly to have been in Rome in hortis Cardinalis Ferrariae". In his 'Address to the Spectator' he explicitly says that the drawings were not made in Italy, he obviously thought the statue had left Italy for England or France, after Cavalieri's book was published and before De Gheyn made his drawing.
For comment on volume see 1850,0810.652.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0810.749