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Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio [...]," (Account by Alfonso Isachi regarding the Origin, Festivities, Procession, and Miracles of the Madonna of Reggio)

Catalog Data

Print Maker:
Giovanni Luigi Valesio, Italian, ca. 1583 - 1633  Search this
Publisher:
Flaminio Bartoli, Italian  Search this
Medium:
Engraving and etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Platemark: 20 × 31 cm (7 7/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 23.2 × 32.5 cm (9 1/8 × 12 13/16 in.)
Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)
Type:
animals
Print
Object Name:
Print
Made in:
Italy
Date:
1619
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
A parade float: the Virgin and Child in profile upon the neck of a large, fire-breathing dragon. Printed in black, inside a paper scroll above them: "Drago della Confraternità della Visitatione presso S. Agostino à car. 96. no. 24" (The Dragon of the Confraternity of the Visitation of the Church of St. Augustine, on page 96, no. 24).
Credit Line:
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Accession Number:
1938-88-8560
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
Data Source:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ebf1d051-a655-47c0-9d8f-9c6a82a0e230
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:chndm_1938-88-8560