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Print, Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio [...]," (Account by Alfonso Isachi regarding the Origin, Festivities, Procession, and Miracles of the Madonna of Reggio)

This is a Print. It was published by Flaminio Bartoli and print maker: Giovanni Luigi Valesio. It is dated 1619 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is engraving and etching on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

On May 12, 1619, citizens of the Italian town of Reggio
Emilia transferred the miraculous painting of the Virgin
of Reggio to a new shrine, and organized a procession
to celebrate. This print, taken from a book describing
the event, illustrates a float for the parade in the form
of a fantastical, fire-breathing dragon, upon whose
neck sits the Virgin and Child.

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

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 20 × 31 cm (7 7/8 × 12 3/16 in.) Sheet: 23.2 × 32.5 cm (9 1/8 × 12 13/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, upper left: 8; lower left: Il Valo. [for Gianluigi Valesio]

Cite this object as

Print, Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio [...]," (Account by Alfonso Isachi regarding the Origin, Festivities, Procession, and Miracles of the Madonna of Reggio); Print Maker: Giovanni Luigi Valesio (Italian, 1561 - 1650); Published by Flaminio Bartoli (Italian); Italy; engraving and etching on cream laid paper; Platemark: 20 × 31 cm (7 7/8 × 12 3/16 in.) Sheet: 23.2 × 32.5 cm (9 1/8 × 12 13/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8560

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