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Title page depicting a two-handled base with dancing nymphs, from "Antique Vases" (Vasa a Polidoro Caravagino)

1605
Not on view
These vases are reverse copies of Alberti's series of 1582.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Title page depicting a two-handled base with dancing nymphs, from "Antique Vases" (Vasa a Polidoro Caravagino)
  • Series/Portfolio: Antique Vases
  • Artist: Aegidius Sadeler II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1568–1629 Prague)
  • Artist: After Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia) (Italian, Borgo Sansepolcro 1553–1615 Rome)
  • Artist: After Polidoro da Caravaggio (Italian, Caravaggio ca. 1499–ca. 1543 Messina)
  • Publisher: Marcus Sadeler (German, Munich before 1614–in or after 1650)
  • Date: 1605
  • Medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three (Bartsch)
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 1/16 in. (27.2 × 17.9 cm)
  • Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
  • Object Number: 51.501.600
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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