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| Production People Giovanni Battista Fontana (Print made by)  Fontana, Giovanni Battista b Ala, nr Verona, 1524; d Innsbruck, 25 Sept 1587 Title / Description Romulus Founds the City and Names it Rome, plate 9 from a series of 27 prints representing the story of Romulus and Remus Date 1573 Technique etching Material paper Dimensions 139 x 173 mm (sheet, trimmed) Inscriptions Inscribed in the lower margin: 'SVBLATO FRATRE ROMVLVS INITIA VRBIS LOCAT EAMQ ASVE NOMINE APPELLAT ROMAM' Watermark no Provenance Nikolaus Esterházy (Lugt 1966) References Bartsch XVI.229.32 Adam Bartsch, Le peintre-graveur, vols. 21, Vienna 1803-21 Dillon in Verona 1980, no. XI. 62 Gianvittorio Dillon, La grafica: Stampe e libri a Verona negli anni di Palladio, in Palladio e Verona, ed. Paola Marini, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona 1980, pp. 257-89 Comment See under inv. no. 6998. Inventory Number 6982 Classification Prints: Italian: 16th century: Mounted I |
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