Accession number
PML 140007, no. 39
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam?], 1717.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
An illustration for an unidentified publication.
Engraving of medal commemorating the Peace of Westphalia and end of the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Netherlands.
Engraving of medal commemorating the Peace of Westphalia and end of the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Netherlands.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 95 x 150 mm; plate mark: 102 x 158 mm; sheet: 116 x 171 mm
Summary
Obverse and reverse of the medal depicted; at left: the goddess of peace is drawn in a chariot by two lions, who are trampling upon a battle flag as a cannon, shield, pistol, and other tools of war lie under the wheels of the chariot; Peace clasps a horn of plenty in one arm and raises the caduceus of Mercury over the two lions with the other hand; at right: cupids hold up a suspended field of cloth above a harbor crowded with ships, with ten lines in Latin, beginning: Pacis foelicitas.
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