Accession number
PML 55623, plate 117 (lower)
Creator
Reverdy, Georges, active 1529-1561, engraver.
Published
[Rome? : Lafrery?, 1570?]
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.
Notes
Caption title; Bartsch lists engraving under title, "Ten children dancing to a bagpipe".
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.
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 ; 103 x 196 mm
Provenance
Jacques Auguste de Thou (inscription), Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr., Henry S. Morgan.
Summary
Frieze-like composition with ten putti dancing while another plays the bagpipes at right.
Classification
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Department