A woman rescuing twin babies from a river. Engraving by C. Fantetti after Hieronymus Trudon after Annibale Carracci.

  • Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.
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A woman rescuing twin babies from a river. Engraving by C. Fantetti after Hieronymus Trudon after Annibale Carracci. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Composition possibly the same as a picture referred to by Malvasia as "a Latona in a landscape, where peasants are muddying the waters of the pond to spite her, a very beautiful work in the manner of Veronese" (Summerscale, loc. cit.)

Anne Summerscale, Malvasia's Life of the Carracci: commentary and translation, University Park, Pa., 2000, p. 325, with reference to the present print

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark ?? cm

Lettering

Anibal Carraccius pinxit ; Hieronimus Trudon delineavit ; Cesare Fantetti sculpsit. Extat Neap. in aedibus ecc.mi Roccæ Aspidis &c.

References note

Evelina Borea e Ginevra Mariani, Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori, Roma 1986, A52, p. 287 as "Scena mitologica"

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Wellcome Collection 36832i

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  • Album of engravings compiled by Pietro Fancelli

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