The Triumph of Alexander in Babylon

17th or early 18th century

Domenico Rosetti, Artist Gerard de Lairesse, Artist

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Title The Triumph of Alexander in Babylon

Artwork Date 17th or early 18th century

Makers Domenico Rosetti (Artist) Italian, 1650-1736 Gerard de Lairesse (Artist) Flemish, 1641-1711

Medium Engraving in ink

Dimensions Plate: 23 5/8 × 38 inches (60 × 96.5 cm) Sheet: 25 3/8 × 38 1/2 inches (64.5 × 97.8 cm)

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Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1S1036.2

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower left corner: Per Gerardum de Lairesse inuent: Inscribed, lower right corner: Domus: Rossetti Eques et S.E.P.R Sculp: Inscribed, lower center, left half: Ingredere, o victor, Babylon patet, euge, triumpha, | Pellaeam frontem quam bene laurus orbit, Inscribed, lower center, right half: Ingredere, en magnum struit Urbs haec magna trophacum, | Magno at Alexandro est hoc minus, illa minor. Inscribed, in black ink, lower left of sheet: No 1036. One of Three plates from a series of 12 illustrating the history of Alexander the Great. By - Domenico Rosetti

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Hollstein, F.W.H., DUTCH AND FLEMISH ETCHINGS, ENGRAVINGS AND WOODCUTS, Amsterdam, Menno Hertzberger, vol 10, p 21.

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Sol

Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

Venus

Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

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