Accession number
PML 140007, no. 14
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam?], 1717.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Impression of an etched illustration for an unidentified publication.
Impression of an etched illustration for an unidentified publication.
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark: 64 x 87 mm; sheet: 114 x 152 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Vignette with four allegorical female figures, seated among the clouds; Strength sits at right with her arm around the shoulders of Justice; in the immediate foreground sits a figure (Temperance) pouring liquid into a bowl, and at left is a female figure (Pridence) holding a mirror in one hand and a snake in the other; a putti looks on from the back of the grouping at left.
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