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Print, Frontispiece: Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio (Alfonso Isachi's account of the origin, solemnity, translatione[?], and miracles of the Madonna of Reggio)

This is a Print. It was engraved by Giovanni Luigi Valesio. It is dated 1619 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is engraving on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

24 × 17.2 cm (9 7/16 × 6 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

At top center: QUEM GENUIT ADORAVIT; inscription: RELATIONE/ DI ALFONSO ISACHI/ Intorno l'Origine, solennita,/ Traslatione, et Miracoli/ Della MADONNA DI REGGIO./ AL SER.MO SIGNORE IL SIG./ D.CESARE D'ESTE/ DUCA DI REGGIO/ MODONA/ MDCXIX; at the lower edge: In Reggio per Flamin Bartoli Con licenza de Superiori. Writing in ink on title plate, above date, not easily discernable

Cite this object as

Print, Frontispiece: Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio (Alfonso Isachi's account of the origin, solemnity, translatione[?], and miracles of the Madonna of Reggio); Engraved by Giovanni Luigi Valesio (Italian, 1561 - 1650); engraving on paper; 24 × 17.2 cm (9 7/16 × 6 3/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8678

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