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Object Type
print
Museum number
1865,1111.222
Title
Series:
L'Enea Vagante pitture dei Caracci
Description
Plate I: The Trojans taking Sinon prisoner; in the centre foreground a Trojan soldier pulls Sinon forward by the hair; another soldier has bound Sinon's hands and is about to hit him from behind; the Trojan Horse is in the centre background; in the left background King Priam, standing with a group of advisors, points to Aeneas with his sceptre; after the Carracci; 1663 Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
After:
Annibale Carracci
After:
Agostino Carracci
After:
Lodovico Carracci
Published by:
Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi
School/style
Italian
Production date
1663
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
249 millimetres
Width:
432 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See curatorial comment for 1865,1111.222*
Bibliographic references
Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico
(60)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(XIX.290.47)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
classical mythology
Associated names
Representation of:
Aeneas
Associated with:
Virgil
Representation of:
Priam
Representation of:
Sinon
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Aeneid
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Dulau & Co
Acquisition date
1865
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1865,1111.222