Plate 16: Detail of a wall from the Farnese gallery; at bottom set in a niche, a classical sculpture of Bacchus holding Cupid; above, two small fresco paintings set inside frames, one depicting an emblem the other the fall of Icarus; to the left in a roundel, the personification of Fortitude holding a pillar and caressing a lion; from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones

Title: Plate 16: Detail of a wall from the Farnese gallery; at bottom set in a niche, a classical sculpture of Bacchus holding Cupid; above, two small fresco paintings set inside frames, one depicting an emblem the other the fall of Icarus; to the left in a roundel, the personification of Fortitude holding a pillar and caressing a lion; from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones

Artist: Pietro Aquila (Italian, Marsala, Sicily 1650–1692/1700 Rome)

Artist: after Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome)

Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome)

Date: ca. 1674

Medium: Etching and engraving

Dimensions: Mount: 27 5/8 × 20 5/16 in. (70.2 × 51.6 cm)
Image: 24 13/16 × 14 1/16 in. (63.1 × 35.7 cm)

Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture

Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Object Number: 51.501.3568