print
- Museum number
- 1874,0808.1868
- Description
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Three soldiers sit around a barricade, one sleeps and two look to the sky, shields and armors around them
Etching
- Production date
- 1650-1680
- Dimensions
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Height: 132 millimetres
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Width: 368 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The print represents the 'Roman soldiers sleeping and resting after the capture of Carthage'. Related to the tapestry after Giulio Romano's design for the series with the 'Gestures of Scipio Africanus'. For further bibliography see: S. Massari, 'Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit. Opere grafiche autografe di collaborazione e bottega', Rome 1993, n.276.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0808.1868