print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: V,5.148
Description: The fire in the Borgo; after Raphael; with various figures fleeing through an archway and over a wall to right in foreground; in left background the burning city; illustration to Joachim von Sandrart, 'Academia Nobilissimae Artis Pictoriae' (Nuremberg: Froberger, 1683). 1682 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Johann Jacob von Sandrart; After: Raphael; Published by: Joachim von Sandrart; Printed by: Christian Frober
School/style: German
Production date: 1682; 1683
Production place: Published in: Nuremberg
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 415 millimetres; Width: 325 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (350.II)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: fire
Associated names: Illustration to: Joachim von Sandrart
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Rome
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Jonathan Blackburne (in pencil on verso 'J.T. - 1779 / No.116')
Acquisition date: 1799
Acquisition notes: The back has been stamped with the 1870s Sloane stamp but this is contradicted by Philipe's oval blindstamp with the initials CMC, and the by impossibility of a Sloane print having a Blackburne provenance.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: V,5.148

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