print
- Museum number
- 1873,1213.510
- Title
- Object: Perillus inventor mandante Phalaride primus expertus est
- Description
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Phalaris ordering Perillus to be roasted inside the bronze bull; to right, the tyrant Phalaris seated on his throne in profile to left and crowned with laurel, pointing at Perillus, who is being pushed into the side of the bronze bull, standing to left facing front, with various other figures behind.
Etching
- Production date
- 1600-1610
- Dimensions
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Height: 283 millimetres (trimmed to plate-mark)
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Width: 254 millimetres (trimmed and damaged)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a house façade painted by Polidoro da Caravaggio in the Via dei Coronari, Rome.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,1213.510
