Accession number
PML 55623, plate 117 (upper)
Creator
Reverdy, Georges, active 1529-1561, engraver.
Published
[Rome? : Lafrery?, between 1570?]
Credit line
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.
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.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 112 x 206 mm
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.
Classification
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