Plate 6: Vase or Ewer with a Frieze Containing Naked Figures, Supported Below by Two Female Sphinxes, 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 3/16 in. (23.5 × 15.7 cm)
Classification: Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession year: 1951
Tags: Male Nudes|Sphinx|Ewers