Saint Helen
Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian, 1659 - 1741
1696, printed 1715
Engraving on wove paper
Plate: 11 7/8 × 7 13/16 in. (30.2 × 19.9 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 15 3/8 in. (52.8 × 39.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert Dance, Class of 1977
PR.993.42.44
Portfolio / Series Title
Numismata summorum pontificum Templi Vaticani fabricam indicantia
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed, in plate, lower center: ab Andrea Bolgio exculpta / a Carolo Patacchia delineata / et ab Hieronymo Frezza aere incisa an. 1696. Rome.; inscribed, in plate, top center: TABVLA 54.; inscribed, in plate, in image, lower right: S. ELENA AVGVSTA.
Course History
ITAL 23, 17th and 18th Century Italian Literature, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2022
Provenance
Robert Dance, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1993.
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