Plate 4. Mules are carrying barrells and baskets of fruit with men also carrying baskets - horses and cows can be seen through the trees. 'The arrival of the Etruscans in Latium' which once decorated Palazzo Gaddi, Rome
after Polidoro da Caravaggio (Caravaggio 1495- Messina 1543)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1650 - 1691
Materials
Ink on paper.
Measurements
160 x 453 mm
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873018.7.26
Summary
(Folio 7, recto, left print mounted horizontally on page) Plate 4. Mules are carrying barrells and baskets of fruit with men also carrying baskets - horses and cows can be seen through the trees. One of a series of eight prints after the frescoed frieze identified as 'The arrival of the Etruscans in Latium' by Polidoro and Maturino which once decorated Palazzo Gaddi, Rome.
Marks and inscriptions
Below the image and at the right.: Lettered below the image 'Polydorus Caravagiensis inventor pinxit Romae monochromatico opere, cum Maturino florentino ... / in regione Pontis', at bottom left 'Petrus Sanctes Bartoli delin. et incid.', at right 'Io Iacob de Rubeis Formis Romae ad Temp Pacis cu Priv S.Pont.', and plate number '4' in the lower right corner
Makers and roles
after Polidoro da Caravaggio (Caravaggio 1495- Messina 1543), creator Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi (1615-1669), creator Arnold van Westerhout (1651 - 1725), publisher