Frontispiece for a series of battle scenes, with a dedication to Pietro Strozzi in a cartouche, surrounded with trophies of arms and two bound male captives at lower left and lower right

Details

  • Title

    Frontispiece for a series of battle scenes, with a dedication to Pietro Strozzi in a cartouche, surrounded with trophies of arms and two bound male captives at lower left and lower right

  • Series

    Battle scenes

  • Artist/maker

    Antonio Tempesta (c. 1555 - 1630) (printmaker)
  • Associated people

    Piero Strozzi (1510 - 1558) (dedicatee)
    Callisto Ferranti (active 1626 - 1647) (publisher)
  • Associated place

    Rome (place of publication)
  • Date

    1605 - 1621
  • Material and technique

    etching on laid paper

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    trimmed 9.9 x 21.2 cm (height x width)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Transferred from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1942.

  • Museum location

  • Museum department

    Western Art

  • Accession no.

    WA1942.54.17.1

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Further reading

Bartsch, Adam von, The Illustrated Bartsch, Walter L. Strauss ed. (New York: Abaris Books, 1978-), 36[17].156.828.1

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