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Pietro Aquila
Annibale Carracci (after)
Apollo's abduction of Hyacinth; Polyphemus and Galatea (1674)
etching and engraving
42.2 × 58.5 cm irreg. (image) 44.8 × 59.6 cm (plate) 45.8 × 71.3 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Professor Peter Tomory, 1991
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Apollo's abduction of Hyacinth; Polyphemus and Galatea
(1674)
plate 1 from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones series, published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome 1674
Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
42.2 × 58.5 cm irreg. (image) 44.8 × 59.6 cm (plate) 45.8 × 71.3 cm (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 XLII D.5 i/i
Edition
only state
Printing/Publishing
printed and published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome
Inscription
printed in ink u.c.: HYACINTHVS ab APOLLINE in florem conuersus
printed in ink l.l.: Annibal Carraccius pinx. in Ædibus farneſianis
printed in ink l.c.: Ardet amans, scopuloque sedens POLYPHEMVS acuto, / Ad numerum inflatis calamis, dat sibila cantu; / Concomitata choro gaudet GALATEA sub antro, / Et latitans rauci suspiria ridet amantis.
printed in ink l.r.: Io. Iacob. de Rubeis formis Romae ad Templ. S. Mar (...illeg.) (sheet trimmed)
printed in ink l.r.: 1
Accession Number
P126-1991
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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