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Object Type
Museum number: Nn,7.17.1
Description: The Fall of the Giants. Battle scene (Gigantomachy) with the Giants fighting the Olympic gods by throwing large stones and using clubs, a putto riding on an eagle in the top left corner; after Giulio Romano. Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Cornelis Bos; After: Giulio Romano
School/style
Production date: 1530-1556
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 322 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 420 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For a detail of the putto riding on an eagle in the top left corner, see 1929,0715.23.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (56); Schéle 1965 / Cornelis Bos: A study of the origins of the Netherland grotesque (60)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Rev Dr Charles Sloman; Purchased through: Wheatley's (20.vi.1835, bt Ottley)
Acquisition date: 1835
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Nn,7.17.1
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1835,0711.18

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