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Plate 75 of 'Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum ac Veteris Sculpturae Vestigia': Traiectus ac Transitus Animarum ad Inferos

Maker

(artist)
1615-1700



(publisher)
active 1627-1640 (Life dates)

Title

Plate 75 of 'Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum ac Veteris Sculpturae Vestigia': Traiectus ac Transitus Animarum ad Inferos

Date of Production

1693

Medium

etching on paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.9 cm
Width: 37.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.24.75

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: TRAIECTVS AC TRANSITVS ANIMARVM AD INFEROS / 1. Miles armis instructus e cymba pedem efferens, Heros videtur, qui traiecto Acheronte, auxilio Minerv[a]e / descendit ad ulteriorem ripam, in qua Miles alter inhumatus iacet / 2. Minerua casside et Gorgone spectabilis est / In Aedibus Bareberinis / 3. Defunct[a]e Vmbra, ac inane simulacrum capite, ac manibus vndique pallio obductis, traiecto Acheronte, ad Infe / ros gressus dirigit Mercurio duce / 4. Idem Mercurius Defunctum alterum ducit ad Regem Ditem / 5. Mulier lugens ad sepulcrum Defuncti corpore sev reliquijs monumento illatis / Sequens tabula eiusdem est argumenti //

Inscription: 75 //

Inscription: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: P. S. BARTOLI //

Inscription: 980/64(30) //

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