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Women Bringing Offerings to a Herm of Priapus, with Three Sacrificing a Donkey in the Foreground

Unknown Artist, Probably Italian, Pirro Ligorio, and others

Women Bringing Offerings to a Herm of Priapus, with Three Sacrificing a Donkey in the Foreground

1578-1588

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Women Bringing Offerings to a Herm of Priapus, with Three Sacrificing a Donkey in the Foreground

Unknown Artist, Probably Italian, Pirro Ligorio, and others

Women Bringing Offerings to a Herm of Priapus, with Three Sacrificing a Donkey in the Foreground

Women Bringing Offerings to a Herm of Priapus, with Three Sacrificing a Donkey in the Foreground

1578-1588

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 329 × 479 mm. (12 15/16 × 18 7/8 in.) Plate: 307 × 453 mm. (12 1/16 × 17 13/16 in.) Image: 276 × 451 mm. (10 7/8 × 17 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.399

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in brown ink "Stefano [indecipherable]abassi"; below image, lower left, in plate "Petri de Nobilibus Formis"; below image, center, in plate three columns of text, two lines each, in Latin "Fulmina sub Iove sunt Neptuni fulcina telum: / Ense potens Mars est: hasta Minerva tua est. / Sutilibus Liber commitit pro(?)elia thyrsis: / Fertur Apollinea missa sagitta manu. / Herculis armata est invicta dextera clava. / At me terribilem mentula farita facit."; below image, lower right, in plate "Ioseph de Rubeis formis."; below image, lower center right, in graphite diamond with "6072" Verso: lower left in red ink "1809"; center right in graphite "19-25"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Unknown Artist, Probably Italian

2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00

Artist

Pirro Ligorio

1512–1582

Italian, c.1513 - 1583
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Publisher

Giuseppe de’ Rossi

1559–1638

Italian, 1560 - 1639
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Publisher

Pietro de’ Nobili

1579–1589

Italian, active c. 1585
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