print
- Museum number
- 1873,1213.255
- Description
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The sacrifice to Priapus who is in the form of a term in the centre, to either side figures place garlands and below a ram is being held for sacrifice, at left occur Bacchus and a satyr
Engraving
- Production date
- 1530-1560
- Dimensions
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Height: 158 millimetres
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Width: 286 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For earlier state with no publication detail see 1897,1117.16; a copy is at 1973,U.175.
Although they are not recorded in Bartsch, there are four states known for this plate. The second state bears the following address: "Romae Claudij Duchetti formis", the third one Thomassin's address, and the fourth one both Thomassin's and Rossi's addresses. The copper plate was then further altered in an attempt at censorship, but survives in the Calcografia, Rome (information provided by James Grantham Turner, 2014). Also see Massari & Rodino's "Tra mito e allegoria", pp. 101-3
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,1213.255