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Object Type
Museum number: 1948,0410.4.84
Title: Series: Mediceae Familiae Rerum Feliciter Gestarum Victoriae et Triumphi
Description: Plate numbered 1: Giovanni de' Medici surrounded at Rome; two armies fighting at the bridge of Castel Sant'Angelo; to right, chidldren and the elderly fleeing; at centre, in the foreground, two army leaders confronting each other. 1583 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Philips Galle; After: Jan van der Straet; Published by: Philips Galle
School/style
Production date: 1583 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 223 millimetres; Width: 296 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one from a series of twenty plates after Stradanus, for comment see Ii,5.156.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (353.I) (Johannes Stradanus); Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (691.10)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: battle; architecture
Associated names
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Castel Sant'Angelo
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1948,0410.4.84

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