Five battling tritons, from 'The Triton Group'
Summary
Salvator Rosa (Italian, Arenella (Naples) 1615–1673 Rome)
Public domain scan of Italian 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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Date
1615
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)