Antique Print-ROMAN ARTEFACT-MOSAIC PAVEMENT-BACCHUS-DONKEY-Caylus-1767
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Antique Print-ROMAN ARTEFACT-MOSAIC PAVEMENT-BACCHUS-DONKEY-Caylus-1767

Print

€95.00

‘PL. XLII (..).’

– Original antique print showing ancient classical Roman artefacts; a famous Roman mosaic pavement from the Mausoleum of Santa Costanza in Rome. It represents Bacchus (or Silenus) riding a donkey, surrounded by a complex vine-scroll pattern, grape harvesting motifs, birds, and Roman symbols.

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SKU: PCOM-1329 Category: Tag:

Description

Medium: Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 23 x 27 cm (9.06 x 10.63 inch). Image size: 19 x 21 cm. (7.48 x 8.27 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Original fold as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ROMAN ARTEFACT-MOSAIC PAVEMENT-BACCHUS-DONKEY | PCO-MISC-BOX-02

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: ‘Receuil d’Antiquités Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques, Romaines et Gauloises. Supplement, Tome Septieme. By Anne-Claude-Philippe de Chubieres & Comte de Caylus. Published by N.M. Tilliard, Paris, 1767.

Biography engraver: Engraver unknown/to be determined.

Biography artist: Compte de Caylus (1692-1765) was a French antiquarian and archaeologist. Francesco Bartoli (c. 1675–1730), an Italian artist famous for documenting classical Roman antiquities, frescoes, and mosaic.

Additional information

Dimensions 27 × 23 × 1 cm

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