Plate 2: Octavius in profile to the left, from 'The Twelve Caesars'
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 20 1/16 × 14 7/16 in. (51 × 36.7 cm) Sheet: 20 5/8 × 14 15/16 in. (52.4 × 38 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.4998
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous|Raffaello Schiaminossi
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...