print
- Museum number
- W,1.198
- Description
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The Tiburtine Sibyl telling the Emperor Augustus of the coming of Christ
Engraving
- Production date
- 1540-1550
- Dimensions
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Height: 179 millimetres
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Width: 128 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- After a print by Antonio da Trento (see 1873,1213.517 for comment on this print) on a design by Parmigianino and related to a drawings in the Louvre and the Biblioteca Reale in Turin (Cat. No. 16178).
See Mussini, Parmigianino tradotto, 2003, n. 93 and 94
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Damaged; some holes on the sheet.
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- There is no evidence on the print to show its provenance; but the condition suggests that it comes from the Sloane collection.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,1.198