Terms and conditions of use
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus; Venus and Anchises; Cupid overpowering Pan
(1674)
plate 8 from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones series, published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome 1674
Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
25.6 × 66.5 cm irreg. (image) 28.8 × 67.6 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.12 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.r.: Petrus Aquila delin. et sculp.
printed in ink l.c.r.: Io. Iacob. de Rubeis formis Romæ ad Templ. S. Mariæ de Pace cū Priu. S. Pont.
printed in ink l.l.: Salmacis Hermaphroditum in fonte complectens.
printed in ink l.c.l.: Hic ille ANCHISES, thalamo, cui iuncta DIONE / Fatalem peperit cælesti sanguine prolem: / ÆNEAS pius unde satus, GENVS VNDE LATINVM, / ALBANIQVE PATRES, ATQVE ALTÆ MÆNIA ROMÆ.
printed in ink l.c.r.: Semiferum Pana domat Amor.
printed in ink l.r.: 8
Accession Number
P133-1991
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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