untitled (landscape)
artist: Sebastiano Picci (Italian, b.1659, d.1734); engraver: Joseph Goupy (French, b.1689, d.1769);
circa 1720
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Description
scene, “Hieron, King of Syracuse Expecting an Attack, Calls Upon Archimedes to Fortify the City"
Maker and role
artist: Sebastiano Picci (Italian, b.1659, d.1734)
engraver: Joseph Goupy (French, b.1689, d.1769)
engraver: Joseph Goupy (French, b.1689, d.1769)
Production place
London, England
Production date
circa 1720
Media description
etching on paper
Measurements
440 x 310 mm (sight)
660 x 530 mm (frame)
660 x 530 mm (frame)
Inscriptions
inscription proper left signed 'Sebastiano Picci pinxit',
proper right 'Jos Groupy Londoni fecit'
proper right 'Jos Groupy Londoni fecit' central inscription reads " Hiero Syracusarum Rex, obsidiodem expetani ad defendan Urbem Archimedem ariefsit, Expropria Pinocotheca"
proper right 'Jos Groupy Londoni fecit'
proper right 'Jos Groupy Londoni fecit' central inscription reads " Hiero Syracusarum Rex, obsidiodem expetani ad defendan Urbem Archimedem ariefsit, Expropria Pinocotheca"
Credit line
Foundation Collection, 1989
Project credit line
This digital record has been made available on TJC Collection Online through a significant donation from the OPENING DOORS fund, the generous support of The Friends of The Johnston Collection, and Digitisation Champion Christine Bell
Accession number
A1005.5
TJC reference number
1272
