print
- Museum number
- 1918,0713.31
- Description
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Julius Caesar, after a lost painting attributed to Titian known from an engraving by Sadeler; three-quarters length standing to right, looking away to left, holding out a baton in front of him in his right hand, wearing armour with cloak and laurel wreath.
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in black, brown and ochre
- Production date
- 1738 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Height: 311 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For Sadeler's etching , see Le Blanc 143. The painting was one of a series of Roman emperors attributed to Titian, since lost.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1918
- Acquisition notes
- The run of prints from 1918,0713.9 through to 73 all come from two albums of colour woodcuts formed by Consul Smith in Venice in the second quarter of the XVIIIc. They were broken up at the sale at Sotheby's 26-28 June 1918 of the collection of the Rev. James Franck Bright, DD, late Master of University College Oxford, and formerly collected by Dr Richard Bright, MD. Colnaghi acted as the BM's agent, and Dodgson put together a group of donors who presented individual prints; these were purchased outright, while the rest were exchanged for duplicates.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1918,0713.31
