Accession number
PML 3956 drawing
Creator
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785, artist.
Published
1773?
Notes
Drawing for an engraved frontispiece illustration for Canto 14, stanza 45 (Scudi spezza, elmi schiaccia, e un colpo spesso / Spegne i cavalli a i cavalieri appresso), of an edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Birmingham : Printed by Baskerville for the Italian publishers P and G Molini, 1773).
Description
1 drawing
Summary
A battle scene with a cavalryman in classical armour brandishing a mace at center and a fallen horse and soldier in the foreground.
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