Antique sculpture reliefs.

2 engravings, various sizes and conditions.

Two prints collected as part of the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae": 1. Roman sacrifice relief. Rome, Antonio Lafréri, 1570. Engraving, 27 x 42 cm, laid paper with watermark (Briquet: 7579), signed at lower right corner "Ant. Lafrery" (several old repairs with paper strips on verso, dark stain in text margin at lower right edge, plate sl. worn at right side). This engraving shows the "suovetaunilia", the combined sacrifice of a whole pig, a sheep and an ox, the principal animals of the farmer, and sacred to Mars. The printmaker mentions in the lower text margin that his design documents a marble frieze found in a wall of a building on the Campus Martius; it is today in the collection of the Louvre. First state with Lafreri's publ. address. - 2. Bacchus visiting the poet Icarius. Rome, Antonio Lafréri, 1549. Engraving, 33,5 x 50 cm, laid paper mounted on 19th-c. thick paper, unsigned, dated in the plate (sl. soiled, trimmed to borders, some text in lower margin restored in pen and ink, sm. restored tears near edges). After an antique marble relief found in Rome, and originally part of the sculpture collection of Giuliano della Rovere (Pope Julius II) at the Belvedere Cortile.
Ref. Huelsen 46a and 52.