Wellcome Collection
A drunken procession of bacchanals and satyrs with Silenus (?) on a collapsed mule, a chariot pulled by leopards and two elephants at the rear. Etching by P. Aquila after P. Berrettini, 17th century.
Pietro Da Cortona
Lettering: Illustrissimo Dño D. Carolo Casimiro vintimiglia comiti praetes, Regni Siciliæ Deputato dignissimo. viro filos ophiæ studijs dedito, musarum alumno, ingenuarumque artium fautori amplissimo, Petrus Aquila beneficiorum non immemor hoc opus à se delineatum et incisum cum primum licuit reverenter D. D. Petrus Beretinus Cortonensis pinxit in aedibus dominorum de Sacchettis Pet Aga. del et f.
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