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)

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Object Details

Print Maker
Giovanni Luigi Valesio, Italian, ca. 1583 - 1633
Publisher
Flaminio Bartoli, Italian
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
1619
Accession Number
1938-88-8560
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
animals
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
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.)
made in
Italy
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Record ID
chndm_1938-88-8560
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ebf1d051-a655-47c0-9d8f-9c6a82a0e230
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