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Title:
Bacchus offering grapes to two women Object 1
Series Title: 'Loves of the Gods'
Collection Title: Baillieu Library - Poynton Collection
Alternate Titles:
Bacchus
Accession Number: 1959.2338.000.000
Creator: Bonasone, Giulio
Place of birth: Bologna, Italy
Creation Date: (1531-76)
Object Category: prints
Medium:
engraving
Technique:
intaglio
Edition Notes: This print is probably a first or second state. The third state has an inscription [as seen in Bartsch] demonstrating that the inscription should touch the printed image lines. Massari writes that the Biblioteque Nationale of Paris posses a state with no inscription (p. 57)
Dimensions:
Type Height Width Depth Diameter Unit (Lengths) Weight Unit (Weight)
image (sheet trimmed to image) 13.7 10.9 cm
Inscription: signed on plate, bot.l. '.I. BONASONO. IN/ VENTOR.'
Other Inscriptions: inscribed l.l.corner blindstamp: "T.L [circled]"
Catalogue Raisonne: Bartsch 147-II; Massari 51
Credit Line: Baillieu Library Print Collection, the University of Melbourne. Gift of Dr J. Orde Poynton 1959.
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