This sheet could replace Marcantonio’s Massacre of the Innocents. It could act as a comparative work to contemporary Florentine and Venetian prints, highlighting Rome’s increasingly larger and more profitable print market.
© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Marco Dente
The so-called Spinario in Rome, depicting a man, seated, removing a thorn from his right foot, after an antique statue
Engraving
239 x 167 mm
WA1863.1737
https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/292043