Lucretia Preparing to Kill Herself

Engraver Enea Vico Italian

After Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) Italian

ca. 1542–43

Not on view

In Mariette Album, folio 67

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Title: Lucretia Preparing to Kill Herself
Engraver: Enea Vico (Italian, Parma 1523–1567 Ferrara)
Artist: After Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore)
Published in: Rome
Date: ca. 1542–43
Medium: Engraving; first state before address of Salamanca
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Object Number: 27.78.2(182)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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