Lot Essay
This dish depicts the same subject as the dish in the British Museum (MLA 1855) sold in these Rooms in the sale of the Ralph Bernal Collection in 1855, lot 1920, signed Fra-cesco Durantino 1544. Both dishes are derived from the woodcut illustration from the Italian version of Livy published in 1493. See Timothy Wilson, op. cit. (1987), no. 83, p. 61. The running figure on the left is derived from the same graphic souce as the similar image on three dishes given to Sforza di Marcantonio, now at Brunswick; see Johanna Lessmann, op. cit. (1979), nos. 488, 492 and 493.