Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by  Acibiades at left
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Pietro Testa|Vicenzo Billi
Artist bio: Italian, Lucca 1612–1650 Rome|Italian, active 17th century
Artist role: Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian
Date: 1648
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: plate: 10 1/8 x 15 1/8 in. (25.7 x 38.4 cm)
sheet: 10 15/16 x 16 1/16 in. (27.8 x 40.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, 1987
Accession year: 1987