print;
fan
- Museum number
- 1891,0713.650
- Title
- Object: Battaglia del Re Tessi e del Re Tinta, festa rapresentata in Firenze nel fiume d'Arno il di XXV di Luglio 1619
- Description
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Unmounted fan-leaf, showing the ceremonial Battle between King Weaver and King Dyer on the Arno in 1619, copy after Callot.
Etching, uncoloured
- Production date
- 1660-1680
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres (printed surface, approx, max)
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Width: 292 millimetres (printed surface, approx, max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The scene is the annual festival of the battle of the guild of weavers and dyers on the Arno in Florence; an artificial hill was built in the middle of the river, and teams for the two guilds fought for its possession. The original print was made at the expense of the Grand Duke before the event, and the fans were mounted on wooden boards and distributed to the spectators. Copy of a plate etched by Callot in 1619, see mounted impression of original (X,4.177) for comment.
Other states of the same plate: X,4.176 and 1861,0713.1631.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1891,0713.650