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Object Type: print
Museum number: U,11.13
Title: Object: Earth; Series: The Elements
Description: A chariot drawn by lions and directed by a cherub, carrying Berecynthia, Ceres, Flora and Bacchus through verdant countryside, with cherubs plucking and pressing grapes from a vine growing up a large tree in the foreground to right, others with baskets of fruit and flowers, harvesting and threshing on the left and feasting in a barn at the foot of a mountain in the left background; after Albani; open-letter state. 1796 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Francesco Bartolozzi; After: Francesco Albani; Published by: Gaetano Bartolozzi
School/style: British
Production date: 1796
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 600 millimetres; Width: 536 millimetres
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Curator's comments: After the painting in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin; see C. Puglesi, 'Francesco Albani', 1999, cat. 60.iv.
Bibliographic references: Calabi & De Vesme 1928 / Francesco Bartolozzi. Catalogue des estampes et notice biographique d'après les manuscrits de A. De Vesme entièrement réformés et complétés d'une étude critique par A. Calabi (604.III)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: elements; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Berecynthia; Representation of: Demeter/Ceres; Representation of: Flora; Representation of: Dionysos/Bacchus
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (CMC in Philipe's hand on the verso in oval blindstamp)
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: U,11.13

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