Frontal perspective of the Quirinal Dioscuri, Rome
printed 1546
Engraving on laid paper
sheet: 36.6 x 51 cm (14 7/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
DR1979:0298
- Sheet is trimmed within plate mark and has an old vertical fold through c.
inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate on the image, l.l.: "OPVS PRAXITELIS" [on monument]; l.r.: "OPVS FIDAE / HEVS TV QVI PRAETERIS MORARE PAVLVM AC INSPICE / IN QVIRINALI HI SVNT EQVI MARMOREI MVTILI ATQ GRANDES / ARTE VICTA NATVRA PARENS SPIRITVM CVR ERIPIT / QVID PRAXITELES ET FIDIAS EFFINXERE ISTOS AEMVLAMVR / SAT DIXI ABEL VALE SALVE MISCE BIBE DA MI / ROMAE M D XLVI" and "ANT LAFRERI / SEQVANI FORMIS" [both on monument] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, u.r.: "55"
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