Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars'

Andrea Vaccari|Raffaello Schiaminossi

1606 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars' — Andrea Vaccari|Raffaello Schiaminossi

For discussion of the plate used for this print and its verso that was later cut down and used for a painting of the Holy Family with St John the Baptist (ca. 1640) sold at Christie's Amsterdam in 2016 see Jaco Rutgers, 'A Schiaminossi Plate' in Print Quarterly, XXXIV, pp.429-32.

Artist: Andrea Vaccari|Raffaello Schiaminossi
Date: 1606
Medium: Etching
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1962