print

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type
Museum number: H,7.109
Description: An omen of the future greatness of Augustus who has left his cradle and appears as a youth riding a horse-drawn chariot in the upper left Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Giulio Bonasone; After: Giulio Romano
School/style
Production date: 1531-1576
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 202 millimetres; Width: 265 millimetres
Curator's comments: As Bartsch suggests, this is related to a drawing by Giulio Romano in the Royal Collection (Inv. No. 0308). The same design survives on a plate, also at the British Museum, (Inv. No. 1913,1220.116). This impression is damaged.
Bibliographic references: Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XV.155.174); Massari 1983 / Giulio Bonasone (110)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1769
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: H,7.109

Free entry