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Mercury and Paris

Mercury and Paris
(1674)
plate 11 from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones series, published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome 1674

Medium
etching and engraving

Measurements
39.6 × 26.1 cm (image) 42.6 × 28.2 cm (plate) 46.0 × 71.3 cm (sheet)

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

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Rome, Italy

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Borea XLII D.15 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 Ædibꝰ. farnes.
printed in ink l.c.l.: Prœbet ATLANTIADES PARIDI lacrimabile pomum, / Iudice quo pretium formæ ferat alma Dione:
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.: Heu quales Phrygijs ignes, cædesque parantur; / Pallade, in obsequium Veneris, Junone relictâ.
printed in ink l.r.: Petrus Aquila delin. et sculp.
printed in ink l.r.: 11

Accession Number
P136-1991

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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