print
- Museum number
- 1936,0810.13
- Title
- Series: La Cuppola del Cavalier Gio. Lanfranco, dipinta in Roma, nella chiesa di S.Andrea della Valle
- Description
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Plate 1: the Virgin seated on clouds among cherubs, with arms raised upwards
Etching
- Production date
- 1680
- Dimensions
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Height: 544 millimetres
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Width: 283 millimetres (platemark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The first of a set of eight prints (B.XXI.105.4 to 11; 1936,0810.13 to 20) after the famous fresco cycle by Lanfranco in the dome of S. Andrea della Valle, painted in 1625-7. Three states are known of the prints (see TIB Commentary, p.73): the fisrt was published by Cesio at an unknown date, the second reprinted by Rossi in 1680, and the third has added a privilege dated 1691. The BM set is complete, and belongs to this third edition.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- The prints 1936,0810.1 to 36 all come from an album formerly in the Wrest Park library.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1936,0810.13
