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Mantegna I.—Original Engravings.
339
The signature R R seen on the Vienna impression is on the part which is
cut from the present impression (near lower margin towards r.). It is not the
signature of Pellegrino da San Daniele ( Rk), nor is the work at all of the
same character. A somewhat similar mark (in reverse) occurs on the copy of
BT’s Lion-hunt, but there it is probably a mere misreading of the original
signature. Passavant’s explanation (P.V. p. 142) of the mark as 1515 (5 being
in reverse) is possible, but not convincing. It is a sixteenth century copy.
3. BACCHANALIAN GROUP WITH A WINE-PRESS.
B. xiii. 240, 19.—0. ii. p. 505.
Near the centre is a wine-press at the foot os an apple-tree over which
a vine grows laden with grapes. A young man sits, intoxicated, upon
the edge of the wine-press, while a faun crowned with leaves supports
him in his arms. Another faun, wearing a goat skin and blowing a horn,
sits on the edge of the wine-press towards the r.; a third with bells
round his arms and ankles stands drinking srom a bowl. Two children
lie asleep on the ground, and a third climbs up the side of the wine-press,
with his foot upon the spigot, srom which the wine spouting makes a pool
about the seet of the drinking faun. A satyr, holding jug and bowl,
stands to the 1. of the wine-press; farther 1. is another group composed
of a child (extreme 1.) and a man wearing a lion’s skin with another
man upon his shoulders; the latter holds a wreath of leaves over the head
of a young man who stands in full front looking upward, with his r. hand
resting on a cornucopia full os grapes. On the tree is a tablet without
inscription.
[266 x 418] Fair impression, but much damaged : has been torn in several lines
across the print, and portions of the paper near upper and lower margins have
been torn away : these places have been filled and made up with ink.
Collections : Sykes (1824, No. 908), Woodburn.
Purchased 1845. 8. 25. 612.
Other impressions: Chatsworth, Paris (B. N., and Dutuit), Vienna (Alb., and H.-B.)
Rome (G. N., and Vatican, xiv. 1 & xiv. 4), Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Dresden
(F. A.), Hamburg, Oxford, Mr. G.'T. Clough.
Reproductions: Illustr. 22 ; Amand-Durand, vi., 17 ; Lippmann, Engravings and
Woodcuts, i. 2 ; Kristeller, Mantegna, fig. 144.
Besides 3* there are the following engraved copies :
(i) Anon, engraving of the school (in reverse) attributed by Passavant to
Zoan Andrea (P. 41. Berlin, Florence, Rome, Vatican, xiv. 46); (ii) Daniel
Hopfer (B. 49); (iii) Nicoletto da Modena, Neptune B. 49 (Vienna, H.-B.
and Chatsworth) reproduces the man holding the cornucopia.
Copied in an anonymous Italian drawing of the sixteenth century in the
Print Room (Sloane 5214. 293 unmounted).
There is a drawing in Mr. J. P. Heseltine’s collection which gives the
composition in reverse: if a copy, it is probably taken directly from the original
drawing and not from the engraving. It is drawn in a red tint and heightened
with white.
3*. BACCHANALIAN GROUP WITH A WINE-PRESS (Copy of the pre-
ceding). 0. ii. p. 505.
Closely copied from No. 3, with a few slight variations, among which it
may be noted that the first and second fingers on the r. hand of the Faun
who supports the youth on the wine-press are of more equal length than in
Z 2
339
The signature R R seen on the Vienna impression is on the part which is
cut from the present impression (near lower margin towards r.). It is not the
signature of Pellegrino da San Daniele ( Rk), nor is the work at all of the
same character. A somewhat similar mark (in reverse) occurs on the copy of
BT’s Lion-hunt, but there it is probably a mere misreading of the original
signature. Passavant’s explanation (P.V. p. 142) of the mark as 1515 (5 being
in reverse) is possible, but not convincing. It is a sixteenth century copy.
3. BACCHANALIAN GROUP WITH A WINE-PRESS.
B. xiii. 240, 19.—0. ii. p. 505.
Near the centre is a wine-press at the foot os an apple-tree over which
a vine grows laden with grapes. A young man sits, intoxicated, upon
the edge of the wine-press, while a faun crowned with leaves supports
him in his arms. Another faun, wearing a goat skin and blowing a horn,
sits on the edge of the wine-press towards the r.; a third with bells
round his arms and ankles stands drinking srom a bowl. Two children
lie asleep on the ground, and a third climbs up the side of the wine-press,
with his foot upon the spigot, srom which the wine spouting makes a pool
about the seet of the drinking faun. A satyr, holding jug and bowl,
stands to the 1. of the wine-press; farther 1. is another group composed
of a child (extreme 1.) and a man wearing a lion’s skin with another
man upon his shoulders; the latter holds a wreath of leaves over the head
of a young man who stands in full front looking upward, with his r. hand
resting on a cornucopia full os grapes. On the tree is a tablet without
inscription.
[266 x 418] Fair impression, but much damaged : has been torn in several lines
across the print, and portions of the paper near upper and lower margins have
been torn away : these places have been filled and made up with ink.
Collections : Sykes (1824, No. 908), Woodburn.
Purchased 1845. 8. 25. 612.
Other impressions: Chatsworth, Paris (B. N., and Dutuit), Vienna (Alb., and H.-B.)
Rome (G. N., and Vatican, xiv. 1 & xiv. 4), Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Dresden
(F. A.), Hamburg, Oxford, Mr. G.'T. Clough.
Reproductions: Illustr. 22 ; Amand-Durand, vi., 17 ; Lippmann, Engravings and
Woodcuts, i. 2 ; Kristeller, Mantegna, fig. 144.
Besides 3* there are the following engraved copies :
(i) Anon, engraving of the school (in reverse) attributed by Passavant to
Zoan Andrea (P. 41. Berlin, Florence, Rome, Vatican, xiv. 46); (ii) Daniel
Hopfer (B. 49); (iii) Nicoletto da Modena, Neptune B. 49 (Vienna, H.-B.
and Chatsworth) reproduces the man holding the cornucopia.
Copied in an anonymous Italian drawing of the sixteenth century in the
Print Room (Sloane 5214. 293 unmounted).
There is a drawing in Mr. J. P. Heseltine’s collection which gives the
composition in reverse: if a copy, it is probably taken directly from the original
drawing and not from the engraving. It is drawn in a red tint and heightened
with white.
3*. BACCHANALIAN GROUP WITH A WINE-PRESS (Copy of the pre-
ceding). 0. ii. p. 505.
Closely copied from No. 3, with a few slight variations, among which it
may be noted that the first and second fingers on the r. hand of the Faun
who supports the youth on the wine-press are of more equal length than in
Z 2