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Achilles Dragging Hector's Corpse Around the Walls of Troy

Testa, Pietro (1611-1650, Italian)

Etching on laid paper

Pietro Testa, Achilles Dragging Hector's Corpse Around the Walls of Troy

Pietro Testa
Achilles Dragging Hector's Corpse Around the Walls of Troy

 

 

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Date: ca. 1648-50
Series: From "Scenes from the Life of Achilles"
Medium: Etching on laid paper
Dimensions: Plate: 274 x 425 mm. 10 3/4 x 16 3/4 in. Sheet: 283 x 433 mm. 11 1/8 x 17 in.
References: Bartsch 22; Cropper 121, fourth state of four, without the address
Signature: Signed in the plate "P. Testa fecit" bottom
Provenance: Private collection, U.S.A.