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Title: Plate 4: Vase or Ewer with a Frieze containing mermaids and centaurs, and below a lion's head with garlands and ribbons, from Antique Vases (‘Vasa a Polydoro 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: 9 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (23.5 × 15.8 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Object Number: 51.501.603
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