Terms and conditions of use
Perseus killing Medusa
(1670-1692)
plate 7 from the Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis series, published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome 1670–92
Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
25.6 × 48.8 cm (image) (semi-circle) 27.3 × 49.2 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark) 45.8 × 71.2 cm (backing sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Professor Peter Tomory, 1991
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Rome, Italy
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Borea XXVIII B.5 ii/ii
Edition
2nd of 2 states
Printing/Publishing
printed and published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Annibal Carraccius pinxit in Ædibus farneſianis.
printed in ink l.r.: Petrus Aquila delineauit, et sculp.
printed in ink l.c.: Io. Iacobus de Rubeis formis Romæ ad Templ. S. Mariæ de Pace cū priu. S. Pont.
printed in ink l.c.l.: PERSEVS anguicomæ ferro secat ora MEDVSÆ, / Spernere diuinas PALLADIS ausa comas.
printed in ink l.c.: Obijcit horrificis clypeum Dea sospita monstris; / Spectat in aduerso PERSEVS ære caput.
printed in ink l.c.r.: Discite Mortales moniti non spernere Diuos: / e̛nse ferit stricto vindicis ira Dei.
printed in ink l.r.: 7
Accession Number
P110.7-1991
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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