Le Avventure di Saffo (The Adventures of Sappho)
Tresham, Henry · Other
1784
- Medium
- bound volume with engraved, etched, and aquatinted title page, engraved introduction, and eighteen etching and aquatints printed in brown, black, light green, and gray on laid paper
- Classification
- Volume
- Period
- 1776 to 1800
- Image size
- 5526 × 7121px
Description
The image depicts a page with an illustration of an ancient-style profile portrait medallion, featuring the bust and head of a person with defined facial features facing left. The person has a nose, cheekbones, and chin, with hair styled in a classical Greek fashion, tied with a band. Above the portrait, the text "Le Avventure di SAFFO" is inscribed in a decorative font. Below the medallion, there are lines of smaller text in Italian. The background has an aged paper texture with scattered spots. The location is listed as "ROMA," and the date is in Roman numerals "MDCCLXXVIII," which translates to 1784.
Rights & Source
Open access image from the National Gallery of Art, released under its open access program. Metadata via the NGA Open Data Program (CC0).