Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl

Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
Copied after: Giuseppe Niccolò Rossigliani, called Niccolò Vicentino (Italian, active about 1510–1550)
After: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, 1503–1540)

early 16th–mid 16th century

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in black and three shades of gray-green

Dimensions Sheet: 34.5 x 26.3 cm (13 9/16 x 10 3/8 in.)(trimmed into, or slightly inside of, the borderline)

Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Number64.1081

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

This print is a copy of the print illustrated in Illustrated Bartsch. Note particularly the differences in the wall behind the column in the upper right corner.

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.090.8 (copy)

Marks Verso, upper left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)

ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 23, 1964