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Les Gens de Justice. - Ainsi donc, quoique j'vous avoue, entre nous, qu'cest moi qu'a volé la toquante au pere Jérôme . . . (pl 28)
Second state, with letters. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Ainsi donc, quoique j'vous avoue, entre nous, qu'cest moi qu'a volé la toquante au...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Plaidez, plaidez . . . ça sera un bon tour à jouer à votre voisin. . . (pl 29)
Second state (of 2), with letters. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Plaidez, plaidez . . . ça sera un bon tour à jouer à votre voisin . . . v...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - L'avocat qui se trouve mal - dernière ressource quand la cause est bien malade. (pl 30)
Third state (of 3), with letters, "l'avocat" (with small a). From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - L'avocat qui se trouve mal - dernière r...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Laissez dire un peu de mal de vous ... Laissez dire . . . (pl 32)
Second state, with letters. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Laissez dire un peu de mal de vous … Laissez dire . . . (Don't you worry... just ...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Une Péroraison à la Démosthène (pl 33)
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Une Péroraison à la Démosthène . Around the mid-1840s Daumier started publi...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Il parait décidement que mon gaillard est un grand scélérat . . . (pl 37)
Second state (of 2), with letters. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Il parait décidement que mon gaillard est un grand scélérat. (It really s...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Ces Bons Parisiens - Comment, vous ne portez pas encore de talma? . . . - Non, je reste fidèle au paletot, cela dessine mieux la taille. (364)
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Ces Bons Parisiens". Text below image : - Comment, vous ne portez pas encore de talma. . . . - Non, je reste fidèle au pa...
Date: Paris, after 1855
![[Portrait] - Me De Cet Corona se X+I. - Contantia et Fortudine](/uploads/cache/43510-250x250.jpg)
[Portrait] - Me De Cet Corona se X+I. - Contantia et Fortudine
Portrait of German Emperor Charles VI with his motto "Contantia et Fortudine". Holy Roman Emperor, 1711-1740, and King of Hungary as Charles III (1712-1740). Wi...
Date: Germany, 1740
Mellon Scarlet fresh Rock.
Color aquatint and stipple engraved plate of fruits by George Brookshaw (1751-1823) from his "Pomona Britannica; or, a Collection of the most esteemed fruits at pres...
Date: London, Bensley and son, 1817
Vue & description de l'Eglise du Saint Sepulchre tant par dehors que dedans . . .
Shows various interiors and exterior views of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique".Henri Abrah...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
![Ornithon sive Aviarum M. Varronis Pyrro.Ligorio.Neap.inv. [The reconstruction by Pirro Ligorio of the aviary of Marcus Varro].](/uploads/cache/49261-250x250.jpg)
Ornithon sive Aviarum M. Varronis Pyrro.Ligorio.Neap.inv. [The reconstruction by Pirro Ligorio of the aviary of Marcus Varro].
The print, depicting the reconstruction by Pirro Ligorio of the aviary of Marcus Varro in Rome, was printed by Giovanni Orlandi in 1602 from a copperplate originally eng...
Date: Rome, 1581-1602
Opus Praxitelis, Opus Fidiae.
Opus Praxitelis, Opus Fidiae [Work of Praxiteles, Work of Fidias]. With the Lafreri's imprint and date. Published in the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae" (The ...
Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, 1546
Equitum in Quirinali, aversa parte, marmorei colossi Romae; absolutissima Praxitelis et Fidiae manu.
Back view of the Dioscuri (or horse tamers, or Alexander and Bucephalus), formerly attributed to Pheidias and Praxiteles, with two figures nearby, one seated on a stone, ...
Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, 1550
![Amphitheatri Veronen[sis] diligens et accurata delineatio…](/uploads/cache/49136-250x250.jpg)
Amphitheatri Veronen[sis] diligens et accurata delineatio…
The print features the Amphitheater of Verona, it comes from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae" (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence). Example of the first state of...
Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, ca. 1560
![[Naval battle].](/uploads/cache/49259-250x250.jpg)
[Naval battle].
The engraving was printed by Giovanni Orlandi in1602 from a copperplate originally engraved for the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", with the imprints of Duc...
Date: Rome, 1585-1602
Insula Tiberina.
View of the Tiber Island depicted as a ship, showing the Temple of Aesculapius, the obelisk and other monuments. Printed by Giovanni Orlandi in1602 from a copperplate or...
Date: Rome, 1585-1602
![Palatii farnesii Romae… duarum Herculis statuarum icones [Farnese Palace Interior].](/uploads/cache/49258-250x250.jpg)
Palatii farnesii Romae… duarum Herculis statuarum icones [Farnese Palace Interior].
The print, depicting the interior of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, was printed by Giovanni Orlandi in1602 from a copperplate originally engraved for the "Speculum Ro...
Date: Rome, 1585-1602
![Naumaohiae [sic] id est navalis pugnae ex vetusteis lapidum et nummorum monumenteis graphica deformatio.](/uploads/cache/49142-250x250.jpg)
Naumaohiae [sic] id est navalis pugnae ex vetusteis lapidum et nummorum monumenteis graphica deformatio.
Naval engagement set inside an arena, spectators in the stands attending the event; reclining river god and nymphs in the lower part. From "Speculum Romanae Magnific...
Date: Rome, ca. 1575
Capitolii sciographia ex ipso exemplari Michaelis Angeli Bonaroti a Stephano Duperac Parisiensi accurate delineata…
View of the Roman Capitol as re-designed by Michelangelo, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", first published in 1569, this example edited by Giovanni Orlan...
Date: Rome, Orlandi, 1602
Castello Sancto Angelo di Roma.
The print features the Castello Sant' Angelo in Rome, bound in an album, perhaps from the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae." Copper engraving and published by A...
Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, ca. 1573
Paris fashion plate. (1212)
Uncommon Paris fashion plate from "Le Guide des Couturières et la France elégante Réunis", under direction of Abel Goubaud.In the later quarter of the 19th c...
Date: Paris, 1890
![Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28](/uploads/cache/47690-250x250.jpg)
Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28
A superb example of this illustration showing a blind Isaac blessing Jacob. Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegan...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Very decorative engraving by Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels). The print was published by Hi...
Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580
![Carbonaj. Charbonniers. [Charcoal Sellers of Venice]](/uploads/cache/49435-250x250.jpg)
Carbonaj. Charbonniers. [Charcoal Sellers of Venice]
Charcoal Sellers. From a series of lithographs depicting various Venetian trades, published in Venice by Galvani. Subjects include genre figures such as fishmongers, chim...
Date: Venice, c. 1835
![Fruttajuoli. Fruittiers. [Fruit Sellers of Venice]](/uploads/cache/49434-250x250.jpg)
Fruttajuoli. Fruittiers. [Fruit Sellers of Venice]
Fruit Sellers. From a series of lithographs depicting various Venetian trades, published in Venice by Galvani.Subjects include genre figures such as fishmongers, chimney ...
Date: Venice, c. 1835
Ecclesae R.R.M.M. Ord. Servorum (vulgo Cappuccine) super ripam dictam Fondamente Nuove Prospectus litora versus.
Ecclesae [sic] R.R.M.M. Ord. Servorum (vulgo Cappuccine) super ripam dictam Fondamente Nuove Prospectus litora versus". Apud Ludovicum Furlanetto supra Pontem vulgo ...
Date: Venice, c. 1778
Pars Canalis Magni De Extendens A Laeva…
The Cannaregio on the Grand Canal, with the Ghetto in the background, seen from the Riva di Biasio. From the series "Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum...
Date: Venice, after 1757
Aedis Divi Rocchi facies rudis…
The Campo San Rocco. Title centred in the lower margin; “Mich. Marieschi del.t et inci.t” at the right corner of the cartouche. From the series "Magnificentiores...
Date: Venice, c. 1742
Veduta della Magnifica REGATA seguita in Venezia li 2. Aprile 1791 alla quale intervennero li Augusti Viaggiator.
Decorative engraving of a Venice regatta on the Grand Canal, by Teodoro Viero (1740-1819) after a paining by Canaletto.The tradition of Venetian origin of the race is lin...
Date: Venice, c. 1791
Prise de la ville de Venise le 3 floréal an 5.
Capture of the City of Venice on 3 Floréal, Year V", engraved by Pierre-Adrien Le Beau after Thomas-Charles Naudet. Deposited at the Bibliothèque nationale.During ...
Date: Paris, chez Jean, c. 1798
Prospectus Plateae et Ecclesiae Sancti Jacobi prope Pontem Rivi alti.
Prospectus Plateae et Ecclesiae Sancti Jacobi prope Pontem Rivi alti". The Church of San Giacomo di Rialto, at right Palazzo dei Dieci and the bridge of Rialto.From ...
Date: Venice, c. 1763
A minore D: Marci Area Dalmatarum ripam.
A minore D: Marci Area Dalmatarum ripam". View of the Riva degli Schiavoni from the east including the Palazzo Ducale in the foreground. Apud Ludovicum Furlanetto su...
Date: Venice, c. 1763
Pons Rivoalti ad Occidentem, cum Aedibus Publicis utrique Lateri adjectis.
Pons Rivoalti ad Occidentem, cum Aedibus Publicis utrique Lateri adjectis."From the series "Prospectum Urbis Venetiarum" (Views of Venice). 1st state. Publ...
Date: Venice, 1763
Canalis majoris caput qua Venetias ingreditur.
Bucentaurus et Nundinae Venetae in die Ascensionis". The Doge leaving for the Lido on the Bucintoro on Ascension Day.From the series of 12 views entitled Feste Ducal...
Date: Venice, c. 1766
S. Georgii Majoris Ecclesiae prospectus.
S. Georgii Majoris Ecclesiae prospectus". S. Giorgio with the church and quay in sharp perspective.From the series "Prospectum Urbis Venetiarum" (Views of ...
Date: Venice, ca. 1791
Qua late patet S. Marci area major novum Regim Palatium versus.
Qua late patet S. Marci area major novum Regim Palatium versus". View of piazza San Marco, the church of San Geminiano at the far end, figures and market stalls in t...
Date: Venice, 1763
Pons Rivoalti, utriumqque Ripae, et Aedes ad Orientem.
Pons Rivoalti, utriumqque Ripae, et Aedes ad Orientem." From the series "Prospectum Urbis Venetiarum" (Views of Venice). 1st state. Published by Lodovico F...
Date: Venice, 1763
![Gondolieri privati. Les Gondoliers particuliers. [Private Gondoliers of Venice]](/uploads/cache/49431-250x250.jpg)
Gondolieri privati. Les Gondoliers particuliers. [Private Gondoliers of Venice]
Private Gondoliers. From a series of lithographs depicting various Venetian trades, published in Venice by Galvani. Subjects include genre figures such as fishmongers, ch...
Date: Venice, c. 1835
Habita a Serenissimo Duce in Basilica D.Marci ad populum allocutione…
Habita a Serenissimo Duce in Basilica D.Marci ad populum allocutione, ab eoque Dux salutatus, Armamentariorum humeris in sella gestatoria cum duobus proxime consanguineis...
Date: Venice, c. 1766-1770
![Venditori du zucca. Vendeurs de courge. [Pumpkin Sellers of Venice]](/uploads/cache/49433-250x250.jpg)
Venditori du zucca. Vendeurs de courge. [Pumpkin Sellers of Venice]
Pumpkin Sellers. From a series of lithographs depicting various Venetian trades, published in Venice by Galvani. Subjects include genre figures such as fishmongers, chimn...
Date: Venice, c. 1835
![Portatori d'acqua. Porteurs d'eau. [Water Carriers of Venice]](/uploads/cache/49432-250x250.jpg)
Portatori d'acqua. Porteurs d'eau. [Water Carriers of Venice]
Water Carriers. From a series of lithographs depicting various Venetian trades, published in Venice by Galvani. Subjects include genre figures such as fishmongers, chimne...
Date: Venice, c. 1835
![Venditrici di latte. Laitières. [Milkmaids of Venice]](/uploads/cache/49429-250x250.jpg)
Venditrici di latte. Laitières. [Milkmaids of Venice]
Milkmaids. From a series of lithographs depicting various Venetian trades, published in Venice by Galvani.Subjects include genre figures such as fishmongers, chimney swee...
Date: Venice, c. 1835
![Venditori di pesci (Anguele). Marchands de petite poissons. [Fish Sellers of Venice]](/uploads/cache/49430-250x250.jpg)
Venditori di pesci (Anguele). Marchands de petite poissons. [Fish Sellers of Venice]
Small Fish Sellers. From a series of lithographs depicting various Venetian trades, published in Venice by Galvani. Subjects include genre figures such as fishmongers, ch...
Date: Venice, c. 1835
Va-t'en-voir s'ils viennent, Jean, ou Les Raretes.
[Go, see if they come John, or Rarities.] A nice fully colored litho print depicting a doctor examining an old man in an armchair from the eighteenth century. Behind the ...
Date: Paris, 1870
La Belle Bourbonnaise.
A lovely colorful lithograph illustration to accompany the song "The Beautiful Bourbonnaise". The lyrics to the song flank the print, which shows a woman bedrid...
Date: Paris ca 1875
Christophorus Clavius Bambergensis e societate iesu aetatis suae anno LXIX.
Rare portrait of Christopher Clavius or Clau (March 25, 1538 – February 12, 1612) was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the mod...
Date: Rome, 1606
![[No Title]](/uploads/cache/46548-250x250.jpg)
[No Title]
A small copperplate engraving showing an elderly lady sitting in her bed chamber, astride a camode , using a cylster, probably to administer an enema to herself. A not un...
Date: France, ca. 1780
Amateurs executant une courante.
A group of amateur musicians are seen performing/practicing inside a public restroom, using clysters and chamber pots as their musical instruments. A delightful 'toilet h...
Date: Paris, ca 1830
![[Satirical Cartoon] La difference qu'il y a entre un gendarme et de l'eau de Sedlitz?. . .](/uploads/cache/46539-250x250.jpg)
[Satirical Cartoon] La difference qu'il y a entre un gendarme et de l'eau de Sedlitz?. . .
A humorous French satirical cartoon asking the difference between a policeman and Eau de Sedlitz (a purgative liquid). The caption answers "one stops/arrests while t...
Date: Paris, ca 1870
Lolo - Phiphi. . .
An uncolored, satirical lithograph by Charles Tilt of Louis-Philippe, depicted as a disreputable travelling salesman carrying his wares. Louis-Philippe was King of the Fr...
Date: Paris, ca 1835
![[Untitled cartoon in pencil.]](/uploads/cache/46791-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled cartoon in pencil.]
A pharmacy cartoon in French, drawn probably in the first half of the last century. It depicts a pharmacist giving some advice to another, seen crushing a powder with a p...
Date: French, ca. 1950
![[No title.] Sixteen small engravings.](/uploads/cache/46799-250x250.jpg)
[No title.] Sixteen small engravings.
A nice set of sixteen French professions, or trades, or stage characters. The print is faint on some titles. Some of the characters are a soldier, a doctor, a nun, a lawy...
Date: Paris, ca. 1780
(Les battus payem l'ammende!!)
A French proverb - The beaten pay the fine. It looks like a French lawyer holds a large clyster with one hand, and a rolled document in the other. The French caption belo...
Date: Paris, ca. 1850
La Caricature (Journal) Ah! docteur, ce maudit siege m'a fait bien du mal.
[Ah! Doctor, this damn seat hurt me badly] A French lithograph showing a man dressed in a nightgown seated on a chair with a crest on the back. A stern faced doctor and a...
Date: Paris, 1870
Tout Beau! lo-lo Beau!
[All beautiful! lo-lo! beautiful!] A French satirical lithograph from the workshop of Victor Hippolyte Delaporte in Paris, depicting a stern looking man, whip in hand, tr...
Date: Paris, 1831
Le beau commandant general des cannonniers hydrauliques.
[The beautiful general commander of the hydraulic gunners] A political lithograph showing a French officer ready to 'load' a cannon mounted clyster from a castle top. A b...
Date: Paris, 1834
![[Drawing of a Tulip]](/uploads/cache/06597-250x250.jpg)
[Drawing of a Tulip]
Very detailed and well executed tulip drawing by an unknown artist belonging to the School of Anthony Claesz (1607/8-1649)This drawing was made for a 'Tulip book' painted...
Date: The Netherlands c.1700
Southern - Concan.. - The falls of Gokank..
Hand colored lithography representing a view of the Gokak Falls, located on the Ghataprabha River. The Ghataprabha river in India is an important right-bank tributary of ...
Date: Paris, 1843
![[Drawing of a Tulip]](/uploads/cache/06622-250x250.jpg)
[Drawing of a Tulip]
Very detailed and well executed tulip drawing by an unknown artist belonging to the School of Anthony Claesz (1607/8-1649)This drawing was made for a 'Tulip book' painted...
Date: The Netherlands c.1700
Contes de la Fontaine. 'Le Remede'.
[The Cure]. An uncolored lithograph produced in Paris highlighting the woes of a young maiden, lying distraught in bed as a maid or servant comes to her bedside with a pi...
Date: Paris ca 1830
Les Metamorphoses du Jour. No.39
A humorous lithograph from the famous French caricaturist J-J. Grandeville. He drew scenes in which individuals with the bodies of men and faces of animals are made to pl...
Date: Paris, ca 1840
Comedies de Moliere . . .Le Malade Imaginaire.
A lovely colored lithograph of "The Imaginary Disease" or "The Hypochondriac", by Edouard Lievre, published in Paris mid way through the nineteenth ce...
Date: Paris, ca 1860?
La Science infuse, ou les Docteurs du jour.
Demonstrating the innate knowledge of science, a man is sitting backwards on a donkey holding its tail in one hand and a candle in the other, another man is about to admi...
Date: Paris, 1860
"On n'entre pas."
A beautiful mezzotint engraving of a lady issuing a stern instruction to a male at her bedroom door - "We do not enter." She has a syringe/clyster on the chair ...
Date: Paris, ca 1830
Vue de la Place de St Marc de Venise du côté du port.
Optical print showing the Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale), San Marco Square, and Saint Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco in Venice, as seen from the waterside. The im...
Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Dessins de Mariette Lydis pour illustrer les Fleurs du Mal. (PL II. L'Albatros)
"L'Albatros" - Etching enhanced with watercolors and signed in pencil by Mariette Lydis, to illustrate Baudelaire's poems of "Les Fleurs du Mal".Govo...
Date: Paris, G.Govane, 1928
Dessins de Mariette Lydis pour illustrer les Fleurs du Mal. (PL X. Le Vampire)
"Le Vampire" - Etching enhanced with watercolors and signed in pencil by Mariette Lydis, to illustrate Baudelaire's poems of "Les Fleurs du Mal".Govo...
Date: Paris, G.Govane, 1928/1935
Dessins de Mariette Lydis pour illustrer les Fleurs du Mal. (PL VIII)
Etching enhanced with watercolors and signed in pencil by Mariette Lydis, to illustrate Baudelaire's poems of "Les Fleurs du Mal".Govone printed 353 copies of h...
- $45 / ≈ €39
Date: Paris, G.Govane, 1928/1935
Dessins de Mariette Lydis pour illustrer les Fleurs du Mal. (PL IV. La Beauté)
"La Beauté" - Etching enhanced with watercolors and signed in pencil by Mariette Lydis, to illustrate Baudelaire's poems of "Les Fleurs du Mal".Govo...
- $45 / ≈ €39
Date: Paris, G.Govane, 1928/1935
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 15.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 19.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 12
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 43.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 40.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 38.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
![[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]](/uploads/cache/26445-250x250.jpg)
[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]
Engraving depicting the use of the vanishing point. From Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instructi...
Date: The Hague, 1606
Portrait de Benjamin Franklin.
Portrait de Benjamin Franklin. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, etc. publishe...
Date: Milan, 1827
Portrait de George Washington.
Portrait of the first president of the United States of America.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la ...
Date: Milan 1827
![Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].](/uploads/cache/48425-250x250.jpg)
Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].
Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Dedicate all'Illmo et Ecc.mo Sig.r Andrea da Leze Degnis.mo Proc.tor di S: Marco....
Date: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715
![Se rapita lasciai verdure et fiori, regina hor godo, et piene anco le mani, lieta ne tengo di piu grati odori [Flora].](/uploads/cache/image-250x250.png)
Se rapita lasciai verdure et fiori, regina hor godo, et piene anco le mani, lieta ne tengo di piu grati odori [Flora].
The print, figuring Flora, was printed by Giovanni Orlandi in1602 from a copperplate originally engraved for the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", with the im...
Date: Rome, 1602
