Accession number:
PML 55623, plate 117 (upper)
Published:
[Rome? : Lafrery?, between 1570?]
Description:
1 print : engraving ; 112 x 206 mm
Credit:
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.
Notes:
Caption title; Bartsch lists engraving under title, "Children dancing to the beat of a drum".
Copy in reverse of a print engraved by Giovanni Antonio da Brescia after a design by Aspertini.
Evidently issued by publisher Lafrery as part of suite of 17 prints on 12 sheets of dancing putti and foliate designs, the set corresponding to the entry "Libro de fresi et fogliami" in Lafrery's stocklist of 1573. Cf. Miller.
Provenance:
Jacques Auguste de Thou (inscription), Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr., Henry S. Morgan.
Summary:
Frieze-like composition with four putti dancing while another is beating a drum.
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