EditorialFlint gun turned into rifle, in empire style. The front part of the lock is very long, the rooster is engraved with a cornucopia, the final plate with a swan and a signature. The Damascus loop is browned and fills out at both the front and back, marked...
EditorialChariot Drawn by Lions with Amorini (recto) Partial Architectural Study (verso) , first half 1500s. Italy, 16th century. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 9 x 42.4 cm (3 9/16 x 16 11/16 in.).
EditorialChariot Drawn by Lions with Amorini, first half 1500s. Italy, 16th century. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 9 x 42.4 cm (3 9/16 x 16 11/16 in.).
EditorialPainting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialRocaille Fountain with Venus, Amorini, and Swans. Dated: c. 1735. Dimensions: overall: 54.8 x 37.8 cm (21 9/16 x 14 7/8 in.). Medium: red chalk on 2 joined sheets of laid paper.
EditorialPainting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.