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BPLDC no.: 08_04_000153

Page Title: The Quadriga

Collection: William Vaughn Tupper Scrapbook Collection

Album: Volume 44: Venice.

Call no.: 4098B.104 v44 (p. 6)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Photographer: Salviati, Paolo

Genre: Scrapbooks; Albumen prints

Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on page : albumen ; page 33 x 39 cm.

Description: Scrapbook page contains one photograph of the Quadriga in Venice, Italy. Annotated information describes the dispute over their creator and offers other historical information about the artifacts.

Transcription: Over the main entrance are four horses of gilded bronze, long attributed to the Greek artist Lysippus, but now believed to be the work of some Roman artist of the time of Nero. They are thought to have originally stood on the arch of Nero: and subsequently on that of Trajan. They were sent by Constantine to Constantinople and brought back in 1204 by Doge Dandolo. Napoleon in 1794 carried them off to Paris whence they were returned in 1815. "A glorious team of horses! I should like to have the opinion of a good judge of horse flesh. What seemed strange to me was that closely viewed they appear heavy while from the piazza below they look light as deer." -Goethe.

Notes: Page description supplied by cataloger, derived from captions and/or annotated information.; Caption on image: I 4 Cavalli, Venezia

BPL Department: Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

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  • Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m
  • License: CC BY 2.0
  • User: Boston Public Library BPL
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1891—1894

  • Flickr upload date: 2009-08-21 11:44:02
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William Vaughn Tupper

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