Mercurio sale in cielo per convocare gli Dei: Amorini nelle vele (Mercury ascends to the heavens to call together the gods: Cupids in the "sails")

after a fresco by Raphael Santi, or Sanzi or Sanzio, called Raphael or Raphael Urbinas, painter, draughtsman, sculptor and architect, 1483-1520 (artist notes)
French (artist nationality)
history painter, draughtsman, and engraver (artist role)
Raphael, 1483-1520 (original artist)
Recto: bottom center: (all text in Latin) Mercurius uocalis Deus ex Iouis mandato Deos omnes ad concionem conuocat de Cupidinis ac Psyches coniugio sententiam laturi. ; bottom left: Pennatus hic Veneris puer Bacchi exuuijs superbit, trophaeum pampineis uuis insigne extollens, / ebria Tygride insequente, huic Deo uitis uinique conditori sacrâ. ; bottom right: Panis ruralis Dei agrestes calamos puer alter exhibet, Auibus Noctuam illudentibus in ludi: / brium huius Dei qui cum Apolline de cantu ausus est contendere. ; l. l.: Raphael Sanctius Vrbinas inuentor. ; center, bottom edge: Typis ac Su[m]ptibus Dominici de Rubeis Io. Iacobi filij ac Heredis. Romae ad Templum S.tae Mariae de Pace cum Priuil. Summi Pontificis. et Sup. perm. Anno 1693. ; l. r.: Nicolaus Dorigny Gallus delin. et sculp.; l. r.: [plate number] 6 ; l. l.: (on sheet, in pencil) 1693 ; verso: l. l.: (in pencil) C575/624; l. r.: (in pencil) 3 50 (inscription)
Etching. (medium)
Fine condition. Vertical crease in center is probably its natural fold as plate from book. (condition)
Source not known. (provenance)
Posthorn, Panpipes (instrument)
17th century (century)
Mythological, etc. (miller category)

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.