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The Triumph of Alexander in Babylon

Domenico Rosetti, Artist Gerard de Lairesse, Artist
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The Triumph of Alexander in Babylon

17th or early 18th century

Domenico Rosetti (Artist) Italian, 1650-1736 Gerard de Lairesse (Artist) Flemish, 1641-1711

Engraving in ink

Plate: 23 5/8 × 38 inches (60 × 96.5 cm) Sheet: 25 3/8 × 38 1/2 inches (64.5 × 97.8 cm)

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09.1S1036.2

Public Domain

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Inscribed, in plate, lower left corner: Per Gerardum de Lairesse inuent: Inscribed, lower right corner: Domus: Rossetti Eques et S.E.P.R Sculp: Inscribed, lower center, left half: Ingredere, o victor, Babylon patet, euge, triumpha, | Pellaeam frontem quam bene laurus orbit, Inscribed, lower center, right half: Ingredere, en magnum struit Urbs haec magna trophacum, | Magno at Alexandro est hoc minus, illa minor. Inscribed, in black ink, lower left of sheet: No 1036. One of Three plates from a series of 12 illustrating the history of Alexander the Great. By - Domenico Rosetti

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Hollstein, F.W.H., Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, vol. 10. Amsterdam, 1993 p 21.

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Domenico Rosetti; after Gerard de Lairesse, The Triumph of Alexander in Babylon, 17th or early 18th century, engraving in ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, 09.1S1036.2.

The Triumph of Alexander in Babylon
The Triumph of Alexander in Babylon