Pietro TESTA
Achilles dragging Hector's body around the walls of Troy
(c. 1648-1650)

Medium
etching

Measurements
26.5 × 41.9 cm (image and sheet, trimmed to platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Professor Peter Tomory, 1991

Gallery location
16th & 17th Century Gallery - Painting and Sculpture
Mezzanine linked to Level 1, NGV International

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Rome, Italy

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bartsch XX.221.22 ; Cropper 121

Edition
4th of 6 states

Printing/Publishing
published by Vincenzo Billi

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: In Roma da Vincenzo Billy
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: P. Testa fecit.

Accession Number
P93-1991

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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