print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1871,0812.3807
- Description
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Bust-length portrait of Tancred, in oval set in cartouche flanked by palm leaves and laurel branches, and surmounted by trophies of arms; head-piece to the nineteenth canto in an edition of Tasso's 'La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1771-1790 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 68 millimetres (image area; max.)
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Height: 86 millimetres (plate-mark; trimmed)
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Width: 92 millimetres
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Width: 97 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A different version (deceptively similar) of a head-piece originally engraved by Leroy after Gravelot for an edition of 'Gerusalemme Liberata' published in 1771; see 1871,0812.3779. For another, different version see 1867,0309.1078.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: La Gerusalemme Liberata (1771)
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,0812.3807