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Plate depicting Pompeo Colonna, from a series of twelve showing knights and their attendants dressed for a tournament (plate 6)

1565
Not on view
This etching is from a set of twelve, of which the MMA has ten (numbers 2–12). Plate 6 depicts a procession of Cardinal Pompeo Colonna (1479–1532), also including Prospero Colonna (1452–1523), Alfonso Gonzaga (1541–1592) and others. A detail of the costume for the horses appears at lower right.
See 53.601.153 for a description of the series. See 154, 155, 156, 158–163 for the rest of the set.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Plate depicting Pompeo Colonna, from a series of twelve showing knights and their attendants dressed for a tournament (plate 6)
  • Artist: Anonymous
  • Date: 1565
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 21 7/8 in. (15.4 × 55.5 cm)
  • Classifications: Prints, Prints-Fete, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
  • Object Number: 53.601.157
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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