Plate 8.Navalis pugna ad Tiberis Ostia. One of a series of eight prints after the frescoed frieze 'The arrival of the Etruscans in Latium' by Polidoro and Maturino 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
158 x 452 mm
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873018.7.31
Caption
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1873-1213-296-1
Summary
(Folio 9, recto, right print mounted horizontally on page) Plate 8. Battle between soldiers on a boat and naked men trying to jump on them, at the right lies a river-god with a paddle in his right hand, in front is a she-wolf breastfeeding a child; The arrival of the Etruscans in Latium' One of a series of eight prints
Marks and inscriptions
Below the image.: Lettered below the image 'Polydorus Caravagiensis Invent' at left, 'Navalis pugna ad Tiberis Ostia' in the middle, 'Petrus Sancti Bartoli del. et incid.' below it, 'Io Iacobus de Rubeis Formis Romae ad Temp Pacis cu Priv S.P.', and plate number '8' in the lower right corner.
Makers and roles
after Polidoro da Caravaggio (Caravaggio 1495- Messina 1543), creator Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700), creator Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, publisher