Plate 31: Civilis Forced to Dismount and Swim Across the River, from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians
Medium
Etching, first state of two, issue 1 (Bartsch)
Dimensions
sheet: 7 11/16 x 9 7/16 in. (19.5 x 24 cm) plate: 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (16.5 x 21 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.1173
Tags
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta|Otto van Veen · 1555–1630
Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), known as 'Il Tempestino,' was a Florentine painter and printmaker whose extraordinary output of approximately 1,700 etchings made him one of the most influential printmakers of the early Baroque period. Born in Florence and trained under Santi di Tito and the Flemish master Joannes Stradanus, he enrolled in the Accademia del Disegno in 1576 before relocating to Rome i...