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Object Type
Museum number: 1980,U.1412
Title: Series: L'Enea Vagante pitture dei Caracci
Description: Man subduing an harpy; the man, pressing on the harpy's shoulders with his hands and knees; after Carracci Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli; After: Annibale Carracci; After: Agostino Carracci; After: Lodovico Carracci
School/style
Production date: 1663
Production place: Published in: Bologna (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 338 millimetres; Width: 210 millimetres
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Curator's comments: One of a series of prints after the Carracci's frescoes in the Palazzo Fava, Bologna. The plates are numbered I - XII and show episodes from the legend, and are followed by eight plates, of which this is one, of the 'Termini' that separate each scene of the frescoes. The BM has the complete series (Mounted Imperial).
Bibliographic references: Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico (72-79); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIX.292.59) (with lettering not mentioned in Bartsch)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: myth/legend; harpy
Associated names
Acquisition date: 1753-1980
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1980,U.1412

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