The Mocking of the Prisoners
Artwork Details
- Title: The Mocking of the Prisoners
- Artist: Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantua ca. 1520–1582 Mantua)
- Artist: After Giulio Romano (Italian, Rome 1499?–1546 Mantua)
- Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome)
- Publisher: Nicolaus van Aelst (Flemish, Brussels 1526–1613 Rome)
- Date: ca. 1540 (republished 1605)
- Medium: Engraving; third state of three (BLL)
- Dimensions: Plate: 17 3/16 × 22 7/16 in. (43.7 × 57 cm)
Sheet: 19 1/8 × 24 9/16 in. (48.6 × 62.4 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
- Object Number: 49.40.323
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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