The Triumph of Alexander in Babylon

17th or early 18th century

Domenico Rosetti, Artist Gerard de Lairesse, Artist

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Title The Triumph of Alexander in Babylon

Artwork Date 17th or early 18th century

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

Medium Engraving in ink

Dimensions 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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Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

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Inscriptions 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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Saturn

Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

Sol

Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

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