Gio: Batta: Coriolano [engraved in reverse].
[n.d., c.1630.]
Etching. Sheet 235 x 295mm (9¼ x 11½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into image on left, losing c.50mm. Very small wormhole centre bottom.
A festival float representing Venus with Nereids in a pool, accompanied by knights and soldiers. The last of 15 plates in Lodi's 'Love Held Prisoner on Delos', an account of a 1628 tornament in Bologna in honour of Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. This example is a reversed copy.
The BM also has one plate, Y,8.125, also reversed.
[Ref: 55421]  £290.00