print;
fan
- Museum number
- X,4.175
- Title
- Object: Battaglia del Re Tessi e del Re Tinta, festa rapresentata in Firenze nel fiume d'Arno il di XXV di Luglio 1619
- Description
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Printed fan showing the ceremonial Battle between King Weaver and King Dyer on the Arno in 1619; in the foreground, a crowd gathered on the river bank attends the ceremony; in ornate border, with grotesque mask at the bottom. 1619
Etching
- Production date
- 1619
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 302 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The scene is the annual festival of the battle of the guild of weavers and dyers on the Arno in Florence; an artificial hill was built in the middle of the river, and teams from the two guilds fought for its possession. The print was made at the expense of the Grand Duke before the event, and the fans were distributed to the spectators. !,000 impresions were printed, of which 500 were to be mounted on card boards and equipped with silvered handles. One of these fans can be seen on the plate itself: it is held by a figure seated on the volute formed by the border on the right.
See cat. exhib. 'Jacques Callot' (Nancy 1992) nos.99-106 for the full documentation on this plate from the Medici archives in Florence.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1996 Apr-Jun, Houston, MFA, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1996 Jul-Sep, LA, Huntington Lib&AG, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1996 Oct-Dec, Baltimore, MFA, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1997 Jan-Apr, Minneapolis, Inst of Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting
2003/4 Sep-Jan, Tarragona, Sala Tarragona, Masters of Printmaking from BM
2004 Feb-April, Palma, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Masters of Printmaking from BM
2004 April-July, Lleida, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Masters of Printmaking from BM
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- X,4.175