Plate 16: Detail of a wall from the Farnese gallery; at bottom set in a niche, a classical sculpture of Bacchus holding Cupid; above, two small fresco paintings set inside frames, one depicting an emblem the other  the fall of Icarus; to the left in a roundel, the personification of Fortitude holding a pillar and caressing a lion; from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Pietro Aquila|Annibale Carracci|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi
Artist bio: Italian, Marsala, Sicily 1650–1692/1700 Rome|Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome|Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome
Artist role: Artist|Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian|Italian
Date: ca. 1674
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions: Mount: 27 5/8 × 20 5/16 in. (70.2 × 51.6 cm)
Image: 24 13/16 × 14 1/16 in. (63.1 × 35.7 cm)
Classification: Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession year: 1951