Acanthus Scrolls
1561
Engraver
Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 29.2 × 43.8 cm (11 1/2 × 17 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.26
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 340
Associated Artworks
See all 57 artworksThe Statue of Pasquino
Italian 16th Century
1544
The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'
Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca
1562
Pantheum Romanum [The Roman Pantheon]
Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri, Nicolas Beatrizet
1549
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 142.
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016, no. 340.
Inscriptions
Lettered across center: "Sic Romae visuntur intercolumniorum folia mira diligentia ex antigrapho antiquo quod hodie in aedibus Andreae quondam Card. a Valle integro marmore conspicitur desumpta ... Ant. Lafr. Squan. Romae MDLXI"
Wikidata ID
Q77259612