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Enea Vico, engraver
Italian, 1523 - 1567
Ewer with a Handle in the shape of an Eagle's Talons, pl. III from a series of different vases drawn after the antique, 1543
Engraving
24.2 x 17.7 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.3235

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Artist Biography: Engraver and specialist in coins and medals. Went to Rome to work for Salamanca and Barlacchi, earliest known engravings date from 1541.Left in 1545 to work for the Medici in Florence, then in Venice, and finally in 1563 went to work at the court of Alfonso d'Este II in Ferrara.~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam von. Le Peintre-graveur. Vol XV. W¸rzburg: 1920~Boorsch, Suzanne and J. Spike. Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century. The Illustrated Bartsch. Vol. 30. New York: 1985, Abaris Books.~