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A Serpent Burning on an Altar, plate 2 from the Scherzi di Fantasia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo1750–1760
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Two old men, and one younger, watch a snake burning on an altar. Behind, them, a boy holding a sword; lower left, a seated woman, holding a torch, seen from the back.
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- Title: A Serpent Burning on an Altar, plate 2 from the Scherzi di Fantasia
- Creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770
- Date Created: 1750–1760
- Location Created: Italy
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/48510
- Medium: Etching on laid paper
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