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
Scroll
- Artist: Unknown Artist, Probably Italian
- Artist: Pirro Ligorio
- Publisher: Giuseppe de’ Rossi
- Publisher: Pietro de’ Nobili
Women Bringing Offerings to a Herm of Priapus, with Three Sacrificing a Donkey in the Foreground
1578
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
