A Roman emperor sitting in a niche holding a sceptre in his raised lef

An engraved figure of a bearded man in a laurel-like crown and draped cloak sits in a stone niche, raising a slender rod in one hand and holding a globe at his hip with the other. Dense parallel hatching models the muscular body and the folds of the cloth, and a monogram sits at lower left.

Look closer: A small monogram is signed in the lower left corner of the plate.

Artist

Marcantonio Raimondi

Date

ca. 1500–34

Medium

Etching and engraving

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2457 × 3358 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949