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Object Type
print
Museum number
A,8.39
Title
Series:
Theatrum Pictorium
Description
Plate 39: Salome with the head of St John the Baptist; after Carlo Saraceni. Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Jan van Troyen
After:
Carlo Saraceni
Intermediary draughtsman:
David Teniers the Younger
School/style
Flemish
Italian
Production date
1654-1660
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
218 millimetres
Width:
170 millimetres
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Curator's comments
This is plate 39 from 246 plates of Teniers' Theatre of Paintings, for comment on the series see A,8.1. After the painting in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (see Ottani Cavina on Saraceni, cat.90)
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(49)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Representation of:
Salome
Representation of:
St John the Baptist (Prodromos)
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Hans Sloane
Acquisition date
1753
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
A,8.39
Additional IDs
Other BM number:
1979,U.848