Frontispiece with Athena and Fame

Details

• Title

  Frontispiece with Athena and Fame

• Series

  Hunting Scenes I

• Artist/maker

  Antonio Tempesta (c. 1555 - 1630) (printmaker)

• Associated place

  Europe (place of creation)

• Date

  1595

• Material and technique

  etching on laid paper, a tear in lower right made up with pen and brown ink

• Object type

  visual representation › print;

  visual representation › book-illustration › frontispiece

• Dimensions

  plate 8.8 x 12.7 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

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

• Museum location

  Western Art Print Room

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA1942.54.18.2

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