Alexander the Great takes the city of Petra

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Title: Alexander the Great takes the city of Petra
Engraver: Bloemaert, Cornelis, 1603-1692
Inventor: Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669
Medium: print
Date of publication: [1633-1692]
Physical description: 1 print : engraving on sheet 512 x 719 mm. (trimmed inside platemark)
Materials: paper
Language: Latin
Country: [Netherlands]; [Italy]
Inscriptions: At centre right on banner: "Pennas habent Alexandri milites"; at lower centre: "Petrus Berettin Corton: inven"; at lower right: "c.Bloemaert sculp".
Annotations: Consists of two sheets pasted together vertically. Some lines were added with pen in brown ink throughout the composition. The print is mounted into an album.
Collectors' marks: Girolamo Casanate, Lugt 4559
Conservation: fair
Personal Name: Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C
Location: Biblioteca Casanatense
: Fondo Stampe e Disegni
: 20.A.I.17/7
Album: Link to album description
Album's component: 20.A.I.17
Bibliography: Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450 - 1700, Amsterdam 1950, vol. II, p. 79, n. 275
Link: Collectors' marks url

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