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Object Type
Museum number: Ii,5.170
Title: Series: Mediceae Familiae Rerum Feliciter Gestarum Victoriae et Triumphi
Description: The dispersion of the Spanish Enemy, on the Adda under Giovanni de' Medici; an army wades across a river towards its fleeing enemy on the other side of the bank. 1583 Engraving
Producer name: After: Jan van der Straet; Published by: Philips Galle; Print made by: Hendrik Goltzius (formerly attributed)
School/style
Production date: 1583 (circa)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 203 millimetres (cut); Width: 297 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Even though margins are trimmed so it is impossible to ascertain the possibility of it being second state with the number cut off (though before the third state with borderlines added), New Hollstein (Stradanus) records this impression as first state. For comment see Ii,5.152.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (356.I) (Johannes Stradanus); Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (691.9)
Location: Not on display
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Associated names
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Lombardy
Acquisition date: before 1837
Acquisition notes: There is no indication of provenance on the verso.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Ii,5.170

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