Watermark: partly visible frame inscribed REV. CAMERA APOSTOLICA.

Literature: T.I.B Vol. 45, Com., 03.01 Only state.

Fine impression with small margins all around apart from the bottom edge where trimmed on the platemark.

After one of the frescoes in the Church of S. Giacomo degli Spagnoli, Rome, painted by Annibale Carracci and his pupil Francesco Albano. The series was etched by Simon Guillain in Rome, 1646. This unnumbered plate is in reverse to Guillain's (plate 16), and does not form part of that series. This is a different and anonymous etching by a different hand and of a larger size. Evelina Borea and others, 'Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori', École française de Rome, 1986, p.252 attribute the plate to Podestà, an attribution that goes back to Mariette. (BM)