Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars'
For discussion of the plate used for this print and its verso that was later cut down and used for a painting of the Holy Family with St John the Baptist (ca. 1640) sold at Christie's Amsterdam in 2016 see Jaco Rutgers, 'A Schiaminossi Plate' in Print Quarterly, XXXIV, pp.429-32.
Artwork Details
- Title: Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars'
- Artist: Raffaello Schiaminossi (Italian, Borgo San Sepolcro (Sansepolcro) 1572–1622 Borgo San Sepolcro (Sansepolcro))
- Publisher: Andrea Vaccari (Italian, active Rome, 1595–died 1627)
- Date: 1606
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Sheet: 20 in. × 14 5/16 in. (50.8 × 36.3 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1962
- Object Number: 62.602.586
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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