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Romulus Offers a Sacrifice to Hercules

Giovanni Battista Fontana Italian, 1524 - 1587
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About the Artwork

Romulus Offers a Sacrifice to Hercules

1573

Giovanni Battista Fontana

1524 - 1587

Italian

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Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Sheet: 5 1/2 × 7 inches (14 × 17.8 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S495.6

Public Domain

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Inscribed, in plate, below image: EDVCTAVRBE HERCVLI, RITVAB EVANDRO ACCEPTO LITAT ROMVLVS Inscribed, lower right margin: 1O

Three stamps, in brown, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1609, 2922 and variation of 234)

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Baron Hans Albrecht von Derschau (Nuremberg, Germany);
November 1890, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Berlin, Germany).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Giovanni Battista Fontana, Romulus Offers a Sacrifice to Hercules, 1573, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S495.6.

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