The image depicts a page with an illustration of an ancient-style profile portrait medallion, featuring the bust and head of a person with defined facial features facing left. The person has a nose, cheekbones, and chin, with hair styled in a classical Greek fashion, tied with a band. Above the portrait, the text "Le Avventure di SAFFO" is inscribed in a decorative font. Below the medallion, there are lines of smaller text in Italian. The background has an aged paper texture with scattered spots. The location is listed as "ROMA," and the date is in Roman numerals "MDCCLXXVIII," which translates to 1784.
Artwork Details
- Date
- 1784
- Medium
- bound volume with engraved, etched, and aquatinted title page, engraved introduction, and eighteen etching and aquatints printed in brown, black, light green, and gray on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 5526 × 7121 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
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