print
- Museum number
- 1891,0511.5
- Title
- Series: Opera Selectiora
- Description
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Allegory on Fidelity. Faith seated at centre, wearing a peplos, holding up a chalice and stroking a dog at left, an altar at right; a blank square in top left; after Veronese. 1682
Etching
- Production date
- 1682
- Dimensions
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Height: 231 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 218 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of fifty-three, for comment see 1878,0914.49.
This is a copy in reverse of a ceiling painting by Paolo Veronese, from the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Doge's Palace in Venice. For more copies of other ceiling paintings from the same palace in this series, see also 1891,0511.2-6 and W,9.89.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1891,0511.5