print
- Museum number
- W,5.2
- Title
- Object: Triumph of Julius Caesar
- Description
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Section 9: Julius Caesar on his horse-drawn chariot, after Mantegna. 1599
Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in green
- Production date
- 1599
- Dimensions
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Height: 370 millimetres
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Width: 379 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See W,5.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- The set of Andreani's woodcuts after Mantegna's Triumphs inventoried as W,5.1 to 10 is a uniform set which has the same provenance. Many of them have on the verso in pen '3N7' which might suggest that they had belonged to Richard Mead. But lot 7 of the third night of the 1755 sale is something different, so this cannot be correct. None of the prints has any marking by Philipe that might reveal the provenance. This in itself points towards Hans Sloane rather than Crcaherode, since Philipe seems to have been fairly systematic in marking ex-Cracherode impressions. The prints show considerable damage and are not of the standard that one would expect from Cracherode, so it is likely that the whole set comes from Sloane.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,5.2