Other Prints · 18th century
€ 1 500
One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.
General age-related toning, minor wear. Some prints have a few tiny defects outside image. Blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Set of seven antique prints of various personifications including:
1) Plate XIII: Personification of Religion, section of a fresco from the Anticamera del Concilio, Caprarola; a female figure holding a cross with her left hand and with the right a chalice.
2) Plate II: Personification of Religion, section of a fresco from the Sala dei Fasti, Caprarola; a female figure seated on a cloud, holding a cross with her right hand.
3) Plate XI: Personification of Peace (wrongly identify as Abundance the daughter of Peace in the inscription), section of a fresco from the Anticamera del Concilio, Caprarola; a female figure holding a horn of plenty with left hand and with the right puts a flaming torch to a heap of weapons.
4) Plate VI: Personification of Security (wrongly identify as Peace in the inscription), section of a fresco from the Anticamera del Concilio, Caprarola; a female figure holding a wreath in right hand and a spear in the left.
5) Plate IV: Personification of Domination (rule or power), section of a fresco from the Sala dei Fasti, Caprarola; a female figure seated on a cloud, holding a globe with her left hand, and a sphere in her right.
6) Plate III: Personification of Virtue, section of a fresco from the Sala dei Fasti, Caprarola; a female figure seated on a cloud holding a spear in the right hand and dressed as a warrior.
7) Plate IV: Personification of Charity, section of a fresco from the Anticamera del Concilio, Caprarola; a female figure holding with her left arm a horn of plenty and with the right a palm, in the lower two putti.
These prints originate from the series 'Illustri fatti farnesiani coloriti nel real Palazzo di Caprarola' by G. C. von Prenner. A series containing illustrations of frescoes in the Farnese Palace at Caprarola. Published 1748.
