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TITLE:  Mutius Scaevola

CALL NUMBER:  FP - XVI - A556, no.62 (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-18710 (digital file from original print)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Print shows the Roman hero Mutius Scaevola, who saved Rome from the Etruscan king Lars Porsena in ca. 509 B.C., putting his hand into the fire.

MEDIUM:  1 print : chiaroscuro woodcut ; 26.6 cm. x 21 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1584 and 1610]

CREATOR:

Andreani, Andrea, ca. 1560-1623, artist.

RELATED NAMES:

Peruzzi, Baldassarre, 1481-1536, artist.

NOTES:

After Balthazar Peruzzi.

Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, p. 27.

Print originally part of Pembroke album, no. 62. DLC

Graphic sampler, p. 28

SUBJECTS:

Scaevola, Gaius Mucius.
Porsena, Lars,--6th cent. B.C.
Latini (Italic people)--History.
Etruscans--History.
Fire.

FORMAT:

Chiaroscuro woodcuts 1580-1590.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original print) ppmsca 18710 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18710

CONTROL #:  2008678762


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