- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2016.248.11
- People
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Giovanni Battista Fontana, Italian (Verona, Italy c. 1524 - 1587 Innsbruck, Austria)
- Title
- Romulus Sets the Law and Chooses Twelve Bodyguards and One Hundred Senators, plate 11
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: History of Romulus and Remus
Alternate Title: Legibus Urbi Datis Duodecim Stipatores Eligit Gentumo Patres Constituit Qui Senatores Postea Digti - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1575
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/356908
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- 14 × 17.4 cm (5 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, above image: LEGIBVS VRBI DATIS DVODECIM STIPATORES ELIGIT GENTVMO
- inscription: in plate, below image: PATRES CONSTITVIT QVI SENATORES POSTEA DIGTI
- inscription: in plate, lower left: Battista / fontanus
- Provenance
- Prince Liechtenstein, Vienna. [James Bergquist, Newton Center, MA], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
- Accession Year
- 2016
- Object Number
- 2016.248.11
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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