Terms and conditions of use
Orpheus and Eurydice; Diana and Endymion; Europa and the bull
(1674)
plate 7 from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones series, published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome 1674
Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
25.9 × 68.6 cm irreg. (image) 30.0 × 69.1 cm (plate) 45.9 × 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.11 i/i
Edition
only state
Printing/Publishing
printed and published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Annibal Carraccius. pinx. in Ædibus farnesianis.
printed in ink l.l.: Immemor EVRIDICES denuò ad inferos retracta.
printed in ink l.c.l: Non sinit ENDIMION te pectoris eſse seueri / CINTIA: dulcis Amor cœlo deduxit ab alto. / Latmia saxa petis, quærens solatia flammæ; / Syluarumque, canumque, simul, simul immemor arcus.
printed in ink l.c.: Io. Iacob. de Rubeis formis Romæ ad Templ. S. Mariæ de Pace cū Priu. S. Pont.
printed in ink l.c.r.: EVROPA à IOVE, sub tauri formâ, in Cretam abducta.
printed in ink l.r.: Petrus Aquila delin. et sculp.
printed in ink l.r.: 7
Accession Number
P132-1991
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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