After Giulio Romano [AKA Giulio Pippi] (Italian c. 1499-1546...

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After Giulio Romano [AKA Giulio Pippi] (Italian c. 1499-1546),
‘Catapulta, seu balifta tormentum bellicum, quo spicula, et Saxa emittebant’ [A catapult, or balifta, a war cannon, with which they shot spears and stones],
Engraving on paper by Pietro Santo Bartoli (Italian, 1615–1700),
The plate 9.6cm x 39cm,
The sheet 22.5cm x 59cm,
Unframed
With two further unframed engravings on paper by Bartoli after Romano: ‘Testudo, qua vterbantur in muri oppugnandis coherentibus super capita scutis, imbricis in morem, aequabant murorum fastigia: unde tela iniecta, per procliue labebantur’ [With the tortoise, they entered the walls to attack, the coherent shields over their heads, overlapping in fashion, they leveled the summits of the walls], the plate 10.5cm x 36.3cm, the sheet 22cm x 60cm; and ‘Constantinus, cum exercitu, ante Urbem Cafira metatur’ [Constantine, with his army, marches before the city of Cafira], the plate 10cm x 48cm, the sheet 22cm x 59cm (3) (at fault)