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[Roman warrior with spear on horseback] – Vintage Print

[Roman warrior with spear on horseback] — historic print
[Roman warrior with spear on horseback]. Historic print from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures [Roman warrior with spear on horseback] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A Roman warrior armed with a spear and mounted on horseback is the focus of this etching, a subject that drew heavily on classical imagery. Printmakers in early modern Europe often looked to surviving Roman sculpture and literary descriptions of battle when depicting ancient soldiers, and the rider's posture and the horse's energy reflect that tradition of heroic, idealized warfare. The caption card gives no date, so the print's exact origin is uncertain, but etchings of this kind were widely circulated as studies and decorative works. Viewers may notice how the fine, linear hatching builds the horse's musculature and the rider's armor.

Medium1 print : etching.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,096 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129547

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