print;
title-page
- Museum number
- U,1.176
- Title
- Series: Vita di San Diego
- Description
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Title-page, with drapery hanging on a pedestal decorated with satyrs' heads, brushes, palettes and laurels, surmounted by masks and trumpets. 1646
Etching
- Production date
- 1646
- Dimensions
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Height: 258 millimetres
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Width: 179 millimetres (platemark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Title-page from the series of nineteen (title page and 18 numbered plates), etched in 1646, after the scenes of the life of St Diego executed by Carracci in Rome. The titleplate for a series of 18 numbered plates showing the frescos by Carracci in the Herrera chapel of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome (Posner 152-72). The chapel was erected in 1602 as a result of a vow by the father for the restoration of the health of his son, and the decoration was completed in 1607. The frescoes were detached in the early XIXc, and nine are now in Barcelona and seven in the Prado, all in appalling condition. The frescoes were made by Annibale Carracci and Francesco Albani, who divided the fee equally. For the exact attribution of each fresco see Posner: here they are all given to both artists.
The set in the BM lacks plate 5 (God the Father) and 19 (Sts Peter and Paul. IFF states that the series by Guillain consists of 20 plates plus the title. This must be a mistake: there are 19 numbered plates, plus the title. See also Evelina Borea and others, 'Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori', École française de Rome, 1986, pp.243-51.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- U,1.176