print
- Museum number
- 1932,0709.10
- Description
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Portrait bust of Ridolfo Capoferro in an oval cartouche flanked with pikes, set between two putti holding weapons. 1610
Etching
- Production date
- 1600-1620
- Dimensions
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Height: 142 millimetres
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Width: 225 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- On the verso is a fragment of letterpress 'Tavola generale dell'arte della scherma'. The portrait apparently comes from Capoferro's book on fencing, 'Gran simulacro dell'arte e dell'uso della scherma', Siena 1610, which was illustrated with 43 plates.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Acquisition notes
- Dodgson's report to the Trustees of 1 July 1932 records that the Italian etchings in his 1932 gift (1932,0709.6 to 80) all 'derived from an album of Italian etchings that was in the early XIXc Rudge collection, famous for its Rembrandts, which was sold at Christie's in December 1924'. This can be identified as lot 5, bought by Martin for 21 guineas, with 254 etchings in a 'folio, whole-bound calf tooled with gold'.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1932,0709.10
