print
- Museum number
- Hh,11.63
- Title
- Object: La Baccanale
- Description
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Bacchanalian procession; a woman sleeping on the ground to left, satyr and a figure blowing on two pipes to left, behind two others carrying a man, girl playing tambourines dancing in front and looking back at him, Silenus on his ass supported by others to right, lions walking in the foreground and an angel above in the centre; after Annibale Carracci; in a rectangular frame in imitation of a wash mount; from Tome II of Charles Rogers 'Prints in Imitation of Drawings' (London: Printed by J. Nichols and sold by J. Boydell, 1778). 1765
Etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink
- Production date
- 1765
- Dimensions
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Height: 305 millimetres
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Width: 486 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After an unidentified drawing. For the accomanying text to the print, see Vol.2, p.49. For a comment on Rogers 'Prints in Imitation of Drawings', see Hh,11.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Prints in Imitation of Drawings
- Acquisition date
- 1778
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by British Museum Trustees in 1778
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Hh,11.63
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1977,U.461
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Other BM number: 2006,U.627
