M5504: Reliefs from the fourth car (Festival of Bacchus). Jupiter commits the infant Bacchus to Mercury. In the same compartment, Mercury is carring the child to the nymphs of Mount Nyssa in Thrace, who bring him up in a cave. (Fol. l ii recto)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M5504
- People
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Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1499
Anonymous Germany, German
- Title
- Reliefs from the fourth car (Festival of Bacchus). Jupiter commits the infant Bacchus to Mercury. In the same compartment, Mercury is carring the child to the nymphs of Mount Nyssa in Thrace, who bring him up in a cave. (Fol. l ii recto)
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Illustrations from Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Venice, Aldus, 1499
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1499
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/251992
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- 7.5 × 12.7 cm (2 15/16 × 5 in.)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Essling 1198
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer
- Accession Year
- 1932
- Object Number
- M5504
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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