Plate 4: Vase or Ewer with a Frieze containing mermaids and centaurs, and below a lion's head with garlands and ribbons, from Antique Vases (‘Vasa a Polydoro Caravagino’)
Object type: Print Ornament & Architecture
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Antique Vases
Artist: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Polidoro da Caravaggio|Aegidius Sadeler II|Marcus Sadeler
Artist bio: Italian, Borgo Sansepolcro 1553–1615 Rome|Italian, Caravaggio ca. 1499–ca. 1543 Messina|Netherlandish, Antwerp 1568–1629 Prague|German, Munich before 1614–in or after 1650
Artist role: Artist|Artist|Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian|Netherlandish|Flemish
Date: 1605
Medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three (Bartsch)
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (23.5 × 15.8 cm)
Classification: Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession year: 1951
Tags: Lions|Garlands|Centaurs|Mermaids|Vases