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Giovanni Folo
Il Pasquino
1792

$500.00

Artist: Giovanni Folo (1764-1836) 
Title: Il Pasquino
Date: 1792
School: Italian, XVIIIth-century
Medium: engraving
Dimensions: 320 x 493mm (plate), 440 x 607mm (sheet)
Watermark: fleur-de-lis (see image)

Inscriptions/marks: In the plate lower left <<D. Del Frate dis.>>, in the plate lower right <<G. Folo inc.>>, in the plate lower centre <<Frammenti del cadavere di PATROCOLO nel Gruppo detto il PASQUINO/trovati a Tivoli nella Villa Adriana: veduta in piccolo dell’ intero Gruppo restituito>>, in the plate upper left <<Tom. VI>>, in the plate upper right <<Tav. XIX>>
Condition: extensive foxing, binding edge irregular
Description: View of the fragments of a statue identified as Patroclus found at Hadrian’s Villa and a smaller view of the reconstructed group known as Il Pasquino. After a drawing by Domenico Del Frate (1765-1821). Plate XIX from volume VI of Ennio Quirino Visconti Il Museo Pio-Clementino Roma 1792.
See https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/visconti1792bd6/0129 for a digitised version of this publication.