Plate depicting Pompeo Colonna, from a series of twelve showing knights and their attendants dressed for a tournament (plate 6)

Anonymous

1565 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

This etching is from a set of twelve, of which the MMA has ten (numbers 2–12). Plate 6 depicts a procession of Cardinal Pompeo Colonna (1479–1532), also including Prospero Colonna (1452–1523), Alfonso Gonzaga (1541–1592) and others. A detail of the costume for the horses appears at lower right. See 53.601.153 for a description of the series. See 154, 155, 156, 158–163 for the rest of the set.

Artist

Anonymous

Date

1565

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953