print
- Museum number
- V,1.62
- Description
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Four women dancing
Engraving
- Production date
- 1490-1510
- Dimensions
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Height: 222 millimetres
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Width: 330 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- A fine though damaged impression. The figures are taken from a detail of Mantegna's 'Parnassus'.
See also Jay A. Levinson, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jacquelyn Sheehan, Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 85.
This print was issued as a black and white facsimile by the British Museum in 'Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Reproduced by Photographic Process', [First Series] Part I (Italian Prints), Published by the Trustees in 1882, where it was number XXIII and described there as 'Andrea Mantegna. Dance of Nymphs, 1431-1506.'; (Shelfmark 245*.b.12).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- laid down; the provenance from Lely and Lankrink suggests that this might have come from Sloane
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- V,1.62