Alexander the Great freeing Timoclea, from "Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat"
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · ca. 1729–40
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"Alexander the Great freeing Timoclea" is an etching and aquatint with tone woodblock created by Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus, between approximately 1729 and 1740. The sheet measures 53 × 38.7 cm (20 7/8 × 15 1/4 in.), with the plate measuring 27.7 × 35 cm (10 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.). The artwork is part of a larger series titled "Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat."
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus (1692-1765), was a French antiquarian. This print, classified under 'Prints' and housed in the 'Drawings and Prints' department, was a gift of Harry G. Friedman in 1960.
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