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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1917,1208.715
Title: Object: Air; Series: The Elements
Description: Juno driving her chariot across the sky, drawn by peacocks, with cherubs playing drums and winged women accompanying her, while Aeolus sitting on a rocky cliff-top to right, opens a wooden door to the cave of the winds; after Albani. 1796 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Francesco Bartolozzi; After: Francesco Albani; Published by: Gaetano Bartolozzi
School/style: British
Production date: 1796
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 602 millimetres; Width: 542 millimetres
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Curator's comments: After the painting in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin; see C. Puglesi, 'Francesco Albani', 1999, cat. 60.ii.
Bibliographic references: Calabi & De Vesme 1928 / Francesco Bartolozzi. Catalogue des estampes et notice biographique d'après les manuscrits de A. De Vesme entièrement réformés et complétés d'une étude critique par A. Calabi (601.IV)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: elements; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Hera/Juno; Representation of: Aeolus; Representation of: Anemoi/Venti
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall (D); In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.715

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