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ANTONIO FANTUZZI (ACTIVE 1537-1550) AFTER GIULIO ROMANO (CIRCA 1499-1545)
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ANTONIO FANTUZZI (ACTIVE 1537-1550) AFTER GIULIO ROMANO (CIRCA 1499-1545)

Caesar ordering the Burning of Pompey's Letters

Closed10 December 2019

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ANTONIO FANTUZZI (ACTIVE 1537-1550) AFTER GIULIO ROMANO (CIRCA 1499-1545)
Caesar ordering the Burning of Pompey's Letters
etching, circa 1542-43, on laid paper, watermark Small Circle (circa 1545; see Jenkins, vol. I, p. 109-110), a fine impression of this rare print, printing with many horizontal wiping marks and a light plate tone in places, trimmed on or just inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, the sheet laid down onto an 18th century album sheet, some pale crayon lines in the subject at left, otherwise in very good condition
Sheet 338 x 517 mm.

Earl Spencer (18th century), Althorp (Lugt 2341a), with a probably associated number 216 stamped in black ink verso (not in Lugt).

Specialist note

The etching is based on Giulio Romano's design for the central ceiling panel of the Camera degli Imperatori at the Palazzo Te in Mantua. Both a preparatory drawing by Giulio Romano (Chatsworth, inv. no. 116) and the modello (Louvre, Paris, inv. no. 3546) for the fresco are preserved.
We are grateful to Catherine Jenkins, London, for her help in cataloguing this lot.