print
- Museum number
- 1901,1014.92
- Title
- Object: La Gerusalemme di Torquato Tasso ...
- Description
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Title page for Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" (Pavoni, Genoa, 1617); An architectural setting with, at upper centre, a portrait of Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoy, in an ornate lettered cartouche; a central title flanked by Tuscan columns and crests with mottos and imprese showing compasses, at left, and a crossed sword and sceptre with a crown, at right; in the lower register, male and female figures in armour, perhaps representing Tancredi and Clorinda, with a central crest showing an impresa of armour
Engraving with etching
- Production date
- 1617 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 284 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 188 millimetres
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Gerusalemme Liberata
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1901,1014.92
