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Object Type
Museum number: U,2.111
Description: The harmony of the spheres; Necessity holding a spindle seated in centre on a cloud, supported by the Fates and surrounded by the planets and Astraea, with sirens beneath ascending to heaven; after designs by Buontalenti for an intermezzo. 1589-1592 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Agostino Carracci; After: Andrea Boscoli; After: Bernado Buontalenti
School/style
Production date: 1589-1592
Materials
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 248 millimetres; Width: 348 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See curator's comment to U,2.112
Bibliographic references: Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XVIII.106.121); Bohlin 1979 / Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family (153.I)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; allegory/personification; siren
Associated names: Associated with: Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Associated with: Christina of Lorraine
Associated events: Associated Event: Marriage of Ferdinand de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine 1589
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: U,2.111

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