Prints / Art & Architecture

[Engraving of Porcellino] Campiglia.

Aper Calydonius.

[1733] Plate mark 32,5 x 27 cm. The whole sheet 47 x 34 cm. Etching and engraving.

Large margins. A few brown spots. Nice conditions.

The plate depicts a sculpture of a boar, published in the great twelve volumes work Museum Florentinum (1731- 1766). The sculpture was brought from Rome to Florence by the Medicis. A copy was cast in the 1600s by Pietro Tacca and became very popular as it stood in a Florentine square.

Item No: 3847