Cherubino
Alberti (aka
Zaccaria Mattia; Borghegiano) (1553–1615)
“The Rape of the Sabine Women: Panel 2”, c1580 (1563–1615),
the middle panel of a frieze of three engravings designed to be joined
horizontally, after Polidoro da Caravaggio (aka Polidoro
Caldara; Polidoro da Caravagio) (c1499–1543), published in Rome.
Engraving on
laid paper, trimmed along the image borderline on the left and with a small margin around the borderline
on the remaining edges, backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet) 18.8
x 49 cm.
Lettered in plate
in cartouche below the image borderline: “SERENISS FERDINANDO MEDICES MAGNO
ETRVRIÆ DVCI III BONORVM OMNIVM MAECENATI BENEFICIENTISS/ Cum Priuilegio Summi
Pontificis”.
TIB 34 (17).159
(109) (Sebastian Buffa 1982, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Italian Artists of the
Sixteenth Century”, vol. 34, New York, Abaris Books, pp. 288–89, cat. no. 159
[109]); Bartsch 159; Gramaccini & Meier 177.
The British
Museum offers the following description of this print:
“Rape of the
Sabines, Roman soldiers are taking the women, male personification of the Tiber
reclines in lower right. Engraving” https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1874-0808-559-2).
Condition: a
strong and well-printed impression, trimmed along the image borderline on the
left and with a small margin around the remaining sides. There are fractures to
the edges, otherwise, the sheet is in a good condition for its considerable
age.
I am selling
this superb engraving by one of the most famous of the Italian Mannerist
engravers showing a panel of a frieze designed by Polidoro da Caravaggio, for
the total cost of AU$339 (currently US$250.65/EUR211.89/GBP180.03 at the time
of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but
not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.
If you are
interested in purchasing this very dramatic bas-relief scene showing the Sabine
virgins carried away by Roman soldiers (Romulus and his men)—note that the
cropped image of horses and men on the far left is continued in the engraved
panel designed to abut this scene—please contact me
(oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make
the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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