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Artist: Unknown
After: Giovanni Battista Fontana, Italian, c.1524–1587

Romulus, Fighting the Sabines, Asks Jupiter for Help

16th century

Pen and black ink and gray wash

Sheet: 13.7 × 18 cm (5 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
Egmont Collection, Yale Library Transfer
1961.66.75
Geography: 
Made in The Netherlands
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Culture: 
Italian, Flemish or Dutch
Period: 
16th century
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors
Provenance: 

John Percival, first Earl of Egmont (1683-1748); John T. Graves; Robert Hoe (sale New York, Anderson Auction Company, April 15-19, 1912, Library of Robert Hoe, Part III, A-K, no. 949; Yale University Library (anonymous gift, 1957)

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