print
- Museum number
- 1873,1213.1001
- Title
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Object: Autel d'Apollon
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Series: Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne
- Description
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Study of a highly ornamented three-sided object, with a winged figure facing to the right and wearing a cape in the front-facing central section, upper section of object decorated with ramsheads and with harpies at the base. Object set in front of a fluted column (at left) and described as an Altar of Apollo, 1761
Etching
- Production date
- 1761
- Dimensions
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Height: 273 millimetres
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Height: 332 millimetres
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Width: 370 millimetres (each sheet, c.)
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Width: 180 millimetres (plate)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The description of the object on the facing page describes it as the Altar or Tripod of Apollo, conserved in Venice and known under the name 'Altar of Mars', and identifies the winged figure as a genie.
Plate printed onto sheet from Barbault's publication 'Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome'. On same sheet as 1873,1213.1002.
See 1873,1213.906 for further comment and 1873,1213.906-1033 for entire series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,1213.1001