print
- Museum number
- 1858,1113.120
- Title
- Series: Views of the villa at Pratolino
- Description
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Plate 1; the inhabited tree; at centre of a wood, one large tree with a ramp of branches ascending around the trunk, people seated at a table in the branches, others ascending the ramp, and others standing or seated on a stone platform at the foot of the tree. c.1653
- Production date
- 1650-1656
- Dimensions
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Height: 13 millimetres (lower plate)
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Height: 252 millimetres (upper plate)
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Width: 189 millimetres
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Width: 371 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The purpose for which this series of prints of the park and villa of Pratolino were designed is not known; however, they were later used to illustrate the 1742 description of the villa by Sgrilli, and it is to this text that the inscription refers.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Bernardo Sansone Sgrilli, "Descrizione di Pratolino" (Florence, 1742)
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,1113.120