deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Tea cup (part of a service)
Object type: teacup
Date: 1760 – 1765
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: nymphenburg porcelain manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1747 – 9999
Subjects: men,flowers
Het schip de "Nest" te Tandjong Priok
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1900 – 1922
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: tanjung priok
Artist: robert julius boers
Artist dates: 1867 – 1932
Subjects: robert julius boers
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘de "Nest". Rijstschip in haven Tandjong Priok’

Het rijstschip de "Nest" in de haven van Tandjong Priok op Java. Onderdeel van een groep stereofoto's van Robert Julius Boers, chef van het staatsbedrijf de Banka-tinwinning op Banka, uit de periode ca. 1900-1922.
Policeman and Tramp
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: gouache, graphite, ink, paint, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush, pen
Location: england
Artist: attributed to philipp william may
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1864 – 1903
Laocoon and the Trojan Horse
Object type: plaque
Date: 1753 – 1756
Materials: copper, enamel
Artist: simon francis ravenet, the elder
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1706 – 1774
Subjects: horses
Satyr family, from 'Landscapes and seaports' (Paysages et ports de mer, dans des ronds)
Object type: print
Date: 1656 – 1656
Techniques: etching
Artist: stefano della bella
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1610 – 1664
Subjects: children,mothers,satyrs
Gezicht op een rij huizen aan het water in Katwijk
Object type: photomechanical print
Materials: paper
Techniques: rotogravure
Location: katwijk
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: canals, waters (in village), the usual house or row of houses

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Portret van William Pirrie
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1872 – 1882
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: aberdeen
Subjects: scholar, philosopher
Scherf van gelig bakkend aardewerk, voorzien van wit glazuur, aan de voorzijde voorzien van een sierrand en een schildering van een landschap met hooiberg en boerderijen in blauw
Object type: fragment
Date: 1600 – 1650
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Techniques: maiolica
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Leeuwen en luipaard
Object type: print
Date: 1595 – 1633
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: beasts of prey, predatory animals: leopard, river, beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Twee leeuwen en een luipaard op de voorgrond. Op de achtergrond een landschap met een rivier. De prent maakt deel uit van een serie met dieren als onderwerp.
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Date: 1919 – 1919
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: brussels
Artist: marguerite stevens
Subjects: the hague, painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken, family life
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’, watermark
Panel
Object type: panel
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: silk
Subjects: animals
Portrait of Member of Medici Family
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: chalk, paper
Techniques: drawing, stumping
Location: italy
Artist: unknown italian
Artist dates: 1700 – 1799
Poker
Object type: poker
Date: 1800 – 1900
Materials: brass, iron
De Tôkaidô van Hiroshige
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1906 – 1906
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: woodcut
Location: japan
Inscriptions: date

Gezicht op de Toyo rivier, waar een lange brug over strekt. Rechts repareren mannen het kasteel van Yoshida.
The Little Box
Object type: print
Date: 1897 – 1897
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: henri de toulouse-lautrec
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1864 – 1901
Bottle
Object type: bottle
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: glaze, porcelain
Culture: japanese
Subjects: flowers,leaves
Ontwerpen voor cartouches en ornamenten in kwabstijl
Object type: ornament print
Date: 1654 – 1654
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: auricular ornament, lobe style ~ ornament, ornament ~ cartouche
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Design for Landau, No. 3935
Object type: drawing
Date: 1884 – 1884
Materials: gouache, gum arabic, ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: brewster & co.
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: carriages

Brewster & Company History Established in 1810 by James Brewster (1788–1866) in New Haven, Connecticut, Brewster & Company, specialized in the manufacture of fine carriages. The founder opened a New York showroom in 1827 at 53-54 Broad Street, and the company flourished under generations of family leadership. Expansion necessitated moves around lower Manhattan, with name changes reflecting shifts of management–James Brewster & Sons operated at 25 Canal Street, James Brewster Sons at 396 Broadway, and Brewster of Broome Street was based at 372 & 374 Broome Street with a repository (showroom) on 14th Street & Fifth Avenue. By 1874, Brewster & Company had 400 employees and combined warehouse and factory facilities at 47th & 48th Streets and Broadway. Brewster successfully branched out to produce their own automobiles, as well as supplying bodies for Rolls Royce at their Long Island City location. Notable clientele included Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, August Belmont, J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Andrew J. Cassatt (brother of artist Mary Cassatt), William Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick and Pierre Lorillard. Talented draftsmen employed by the firm included Paul Steinbeck, Herman Stahmer and John Gribbon, the latter teaching at the Carriage Builders and Designers Technical School, which opened in 1880 and was housed initially at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company finally dissolved in 1923, its last owner William Brewster (1866–1949) donated its archive of design and presentation drawings to the Museum where he served as benefactor and trustee. Of all American carriage manufacturers, none was as highly regarded for design, finish and quality as Brewster & Company. They won many awards for outstanding workmanship, including the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honor) at the 1878 Paris Exposition (3rd World’s Fair). In appreciation for this achievement the Carriage Builders’ National Association presented them with a gold enameled Tiffany & Company plaque and autograph book signed by leading American carriage builders, both now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Merri Ferrell, 2016
Corfou, Achilleion
Object type: photograph
Date: 1889 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: corfu
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: palace
Inscriptions: number: ‘1899’
Portret van een glimlachende Fransman, aangeduid als Emile, van voren
Object type: photograph
Date: 1883 – 1886
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous

Onderdeel van Album van een Franse amateurfotograaf met opnames van familie, militairen, industrie, landschappen en bezienswaardigheden in Frankrijk.
Portret van Thomas-Robert Bugeaud
Object type: print
Date: 1841 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: new york city
Subjects: paris, commander-in-chief, general, marshal, historical persons
Brief aan Andries Bonger
Object type: letter
Date: 1906 – 1906
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, printing, writing
Location: tonnerre
Artist: émile bernard
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1868 – 1941
Subjects: rome, painter, rafaël, paris, charles baudelaire, sculptor, michelangelo, titiaan, amsterdam, andries bonger, artist, leonardo da vinci, stéphane mallarmé, edgar allan poe, applied arts, arts and crafts; industrial design, literature ~ arts, painting (including book-illumination, miniature-painting), diseases
Illustration from Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkranz Mariae
Object type: print
Date: 1500 – 1545
Techniques: hand coloring, woodcut
Artist: hans baldung (called hans baldung grien)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1484 – 1545
Subjects: animals,girls,men,christ
Portret van een meisje met ketting en muts
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: valencia
Subjects: girl (child between toddler and youth), head-gear: hat, necklace
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Ludovisi/ y su señora/ Fotógrafos Romanos/ Cabelleros, 24/ Valencia’
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
Object type: lekythos fragment
Date: 534 – 501
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

On the shoulder, pendant lotus buds
Historische kaart van een deel van Zuid- en Noord-Holland
Object type: print
Date: 1644 – 1644
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: leiden
Subjects: maps of separate countries or regions, utrecht
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 195
Moise Vauquelin, Vauquelin Slipping Away, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: men,boats

Trade cards from the "Pirates of the Spanish Main" series (N19), issued ca. 1888 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes.
PARIS. Le Louvre
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1890
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Subjects: permanent exhibition, museum, façade (of house or building)
Inscriptions: negative number: ‘62’

Onderdeel van Reisalbum met foto's van bezienswaardigheden in Frankrijk, Griekenland en Turkije.
Weeshuis te Buren
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1870 – 1907
Materials: paper
Techniques: photolithography
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jan frederik lodewijk frowein
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1855 – 1914
Subjects: architectural detail, orphanage, front façade
Inscriptions: collector's mark, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Detail van de voorgevel, de toren en enkele andere details van de weeshuis te Buren. Onderaan een schaalstok. Architectuurvoorstelling. Plaat CLI. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Armwezen en Liefdadigheid.
Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)
Object type: religious ritual object
Materials: gold leaf, paper, silk
Techniques: brocade, embroidery, lacquer, lining, patterning, weave
Location: japan
Cylinder seal and modern impression
Object type: cylinder seal
Date: 2600 – 2500
Materials: lapis lazuli
Culture: sumerian
Location: mesopotamia
Subjects: animals,men
Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)
Object type: oinochoe fragment
Date: 450 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Part of the lower body and foot of an oinochoe
Portret van Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Object type: print
Date: 1764 – 1807
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: karl wilhelm ferdinand von braunschweig-wolfenbüttel (hertog), commander-in-chief, general, marshal, historical persons, hacking and thrusting weapons: sword
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Tekst in het Latijn op de sokkel en in de ondermarge.
Paardenhoofd met open bek, naar links
Object type: print
Date: 1801 – 1801
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: joannes bemme
Artist role: print maker, printer
Artist dates: 1775 – 1841
Subjects: horse (+ head of an animal)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Portrait of Sinan the Great
Object type: print
Date: 1595 – 1595
Techniques: engraving
Artist: dominicus custos
Artist role: artist and publisher
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1550 – 1612

This is an impression of the rare first state of Dominicus Custos's engraved portrait of Sinan the Great (ca. 1521-1596). Of Albanian origin, Sinan rose to prominence as a military leader and statesman in the Ottoman Empire, becoming Grand Vizier in 1580 and holding this role on and off over the rest of his life. For his part, Custos was an Antwerp-born painter and printmaker who, as newly published research has elucidated, spent time in Innsbruck and Italy before settling in Augsburg in 1588.[1] There he established a thriving print publishing house, training his two stepsons and his brother in the business. The print appears, in a second state with the plate trimmed at bottom and the date removed, in Custos's four-part series Atrium heroicum Caesarum--the artist's most ambitious achievement. Published in Augsburg about 1600-1602, this series comprises 170 likenesses of 16th-century leaders (imperial, ecclesiastical and military), including a number of rulers from outside the Holy Roman Empire.[2] Custos may well have had the eventual series in mind when he engraved this portrait of Sinam in 1595. For the series, Custos drew upon a wide range of models, including other prints, paintings, and portrait medals. The identity of the "Georgius Wickgram Spirensis" credited as the designer of the Sinan portrait--along with three others in the series--is uncertain. The fact that he is given explicit credit (unusual within the series) suggests a figure of some renown. A German poet by the name of Georg (or Jorg) Wickram, sometimes associated with the city of Speyer, was active in the early-to-mid-sixteenth century. It is possible that this was the "Wickgram Spirensis" (Wickram of Speyer) who produced the now untraced drawing, or possibly even written description, that served Custos as the basis for his engraving of Sinan. The print, including the ornamentation surrounding the potrait, was copied by the slightly later German printmaker Heinrich Ulrich the Elder (Hollstein.CII.339); this copy also credits "Georgius Wickgram Spirensis" as inventor, but does not name Custos. [1] Jorg Diefenbacher. The New Hollstein: German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700: Dominicus Custos. Ed. Eckhard Leuschner (Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel, 2022), vol. 1, pp. xxiii-lxx. [2] See ibid, p. xliii-xlviii. [3] Ibid, p. xlvii.
Death of the Virgin, lying on a chair at center, surrounded by Apostles, inside a temple
Object type: print
Date: 1619 – 1619
Techniques: etching
Artist: jean le clerc
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1587 – 1632
Architectuur in de Franse Orde
Object type: print
Date: 1685 – 1685
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: sébastien leclerc (i)
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1637 – 1714
Subjects: orders, order-books ~ architecture

Onder meer een zuil in de door Charles le Brun ontworpen Franse Orde. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Montering van het exercitiegenootschap van Zwolle, ca. 1787
Object type: drawing
Date: 1787 – 1790
Materials: paper
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: (military) uniforms (+ citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia), patriots (1780-1795)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Uniform van het exercitiegenootschap van Zwolle. Onderdeel van een serie van 32 tekeningen van de verschillende monteringen (uniformen) van patriotse schutterijen en burgerkorpsen in Nederland in 1787.
Parasol
Object type: parasol
Date: 1870 – 1880
Materials: cotton, ivory, silk
Culture: french
De vijf dwaze maagden zijn buitengesloten
Object type: print
Date: 1589 – 1611
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: cologne
Subjects: the wise virgins are let into the house with the bridegroom (christ); the foolish virgins are shut out
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2161

De vijf dwaze maagden staan voor de gesloten deur van het huis van de bruidegom. Ze roepen om binnengelaten te worden. In de marge een vierregelig onderschrift, in twee kolommen, in het Latijn dat verwijst naar de buitengesloten maagden.
Star of Bethlehem Quilt
Object type: quilt
Date: 1845 – 1845
Materials: cotton
Culture: american
Location: united states

As is most typical of the Star of Bethlehem pattern, this quilt has a large central star whose rays extend to the quilt’s edges. Four small complete stars serve as the corner blocks, and four half stars fill the spaces on the sides. Although made in the nineteenth century, all of the fabrics remain fresh and vibrant. The dark blue ground fabric is particularly effective—evoking the night sky and setting off the brilliant multicolored stars.
Gezicht op de Pieterskerk te Utrecht
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1745 – 1758
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: square, place, circus, etc., church (exterior)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 195

Prent ook gebruikt in: Tegenwoordige staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden, elfde deel, behelzende eene beschryving van de provincie van Utrecht. Met landkaarten, plans der steden en printverbeeldingen versierd / Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren; XXI. deel (…). Amsterdam: Isaak Tirion, 1758, tussen p. 370 en p. 371.
Paula Brébion (from Le Café Concert)
Object type: print
Date: 1893 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: brush, lithograph, printing
Location: france
Artist: henri de toulouse-lautrec
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1864 – 1901
Subjects: women
Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: postcard
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: the hague
Artist: adriaan pit
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1944
Subjects: the hague, painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken, printed matter
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Vrouw met een kind met valhelm
Object type: drawing
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: christiaan andriessen
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1775 – 1846
Subjects: mother and child(ren), woman and child(ren) (family group)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Kom cebats ga je mee’, inscription

Dagboekblad uit het getekende dagboek dat Christiaan Andriessen bijhield van 1805 tot en met 1808.
Prenten naar vijf schilderijen door Rafael
Object type: print
Date: 1818 – 1818
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: madonna: i.e. mary with the christ-child, story of tobias: tobias and sarah (tobit 7-9), the monk and hermit jerome (hieronymus); possible attributes: book, cardinal's hat, crucifix, hour-glass, lion, skull, stone
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 4583

Maakt deel uit van een omslag met 8 prenten en 5 tekstbladen naar details van schilderijen door Rafaël. De serie kwam tot stand onder toezicht van Féréol Bonnemaison en werd voorzien van tekst door Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David. Het geheel werd uitgegeven door Féréol Bonnemaison en Mesdemoiselles Érard te Parijs en gedrukt door Pierre I Didot in 1818.
Het schilderij bevindt zich in de collectie van het Museo del Prado te Madrid, inv.nr. P000297 en staat ook wel bekend als de Madonna del Pesce.
Portret van Hilmar Curas
Object type: print
Date: 1730 – 1730
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: martin bernigeroth
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1670 – 1733
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent mogelijk uit: Deutsche Acta Eruditorum. Leipzig: Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, 1730, dl. 156.
Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)
Object type: pelike fragment
Date: 500 – 476
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Part of the upper band of the panel ornament of a pelike: palmette-lotus ornament
Fotoreproductie van een schilderij, voorstellende de ouders van Hermann op een bank naast een plein
Object type: page
Date: 1867 – 1872
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: franz seraph hanfstaengl
Artist role: painter, print maker, printer
Artist dates: 1804 – 1877
Subjects: bench, marriage, married couple, 'matrimonium'
Teutoburger Wald, Externsteine - Wasserseite
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1905 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: rotogravure, writing
Location: halberstadt
Subjects: lake, rocks
Radslotpistool
Object type: radslotpistool
Date: 1655 – 1655
Materials: iron, wood
Techniques: printing, engraving
Location: maastricht
Artist: jan aerts
Artist role: geweermaker, lademaker, pistoolmaker, smid
Artist dates: 1619 – 1657
Inscriptions: signature: ‘Jean Aerts; Maestrech’, inscription: ‘Ezechias Colas Sedan; IB; S’
Twee mannen in een steeg met twee vrouwen op achtergrond
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1895 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: student life, lane, alley (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: number: ‘50’, number: ‘30’
Briefkaart aan Jan Veth
Object type: postcard
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: chap van deventer
Artist role: kunstcriticus, scheikundige, schrijver
Artist dates: 1860 – 1931
Subjects: dordrecht, painter, print maker, draughtsman, designer, jan veth, deventer, martha van vloten
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Studio of W.J. Byrne, Richmond
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1889 – 1894
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Subjects: studio ~ photographer
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘The first ablution’
Ruïne van het Oost-Indisch Zeemagazijn, 1822
Object type: print
Date: 1822 – 1822
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: ruin of a building ~ architecture
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Ruïne van het Oost-Indisch Zeemagazijn te Amsterdam, na de instorting op 13-14 april 1822. Zie ook de pendant.
Lysimachus thrown into the Den of a Lion
Object type: drawing
Date: 1790 – 1800
Materials: ink
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: edward francis burney
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1760 – 1848
Subjects: prisons,men,lions
Gezicht op de Kampersteiger aan het IJ, gezien vanaf de Nieuwe Brug naar Zeerecht
Object type: drawing
Date: 1750 – 1799
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', river, street
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Port. 17 / - 384’, inscription: ‘het oude / zeeregt / te Amsterdam’, inscription: ‘het oude Zeeregt / te Amsterdam’, collector's mark: ‘17’ Lugt 1641b

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Vaartuigen en Gebouwen ten dienste der Stedelijke Regeering en Administratie, Stadhuis (Prinsenhof).
Vier evangelisten
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: southern netherlands
Subjects: st. mark the evangelist writing the gospel, usually a (winged) lion present
Inscriptions: signature: ‘Adria de Weert bruxll~inventor’ Lugt, collector's mark: 2228, caption: ‘Marcus ab horrendo...docta monere, monet’

De evangelist Marcus zit aan zijn schrijftafel en schrijft zijn evangelie. Aan zijn voeten ligt de leeuw. Op de achtergrond een gezicht op een heuvelachtig landschap. In de marge een vierregelig onderschrift, in twee kolommen, in het Latijn.
Evening Shower at the Bank of Tadasu River (Tadasugawara no yudachi), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)"
Object type: print
Date: 1834 – 1834
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa hiroshige 歌川 広重
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
Monument De Eendracht, ofwel 'Naatje op de Dam', Amsterdam
Object type: page
Date: 1860 – 1865
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: square, place, circus, etc., monument, statue

Stereofoto op ongenummerde pagina tegenover pagina 1.
The Colossal Statue of the Apennines, from Views of Villa di Pratolino
Object type: print
Date: 1653 – 1653
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Artist: stefano della bella
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1610 – 1664

On the outskirts of Florence, the Villa di Pratolino and its resplendent gardens and grottoes were built by the grand duke of Tuscany. Francesco de’ Medici constructed it for his mistress, Bianca Cappello, who later became his second wife. This view shows the gigantic statue personifying the Apennine Mountains, a masterpiece made in 1579–80 by the late Renaissance sculptor Giambologna.
The fantastical setting was a fitting subject for Stefano della Bella’s energetic yet delicate linework. His etchings of the Villa di Pratolino were so popular, the plates continued to be printed into the 18th century.