Battle of the Sea Gods, between 1450 and 1500

  • Andrea Mantegna, Italian, 1431-1506

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 11 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (29.2 × 42.5 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

27.558

Stamped, in blue, verso: [unidentified]

Inscribed, in plate, upper center of image: INVID | [ ] Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [artist, Bartsch reference and other numeric notations]

1927-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hind, A. M. Early Italian Engraving. London, 1948, vol. 5, p. 15, no. 5 and vol. 6, plate 494.

Andrea Mantegna, Battle of the Sea Gods, between 1450 and 1500, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 27.558.