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Frieze of Sacrificial Instruments and Ship Fragments

1553

Nicolas Beatrizet

Artist, French, 1515 - 1565 or after

Medium

engraving
Credit Line

Gift of Lois and Robert Erburu
Accession

2000.119.1.dddd
Catalogue Raisonné

Huelsen 1921, no. 51, State Aa

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632. (Susan Schulman Printseller, New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Schulman, Susan

Bibliography

1921

Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921.

1976

McGinniss, Lawrence R. and Herbert Mitchell. Catalogue of the Earl of Crawford's 'Speculum Magnificentiae Now in the Avery Achitectural Library. New York, 1976.

Watermarks

pascal lamb

Wikidata ID

Q75432332

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