Accession number
PML 140007, no. 231
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam?], 1728.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Four lines of caption text in French below image.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 134 x 80 mm; plate mark: 150 x 84 mm; sheet: 227 x 134 mm
Summary
Allegory on Dutch naval supremacy, with Neptune on his chariot, standing before a personification of Holland, who is enthroned at right, and surrounded by Religion, and personifications of Dutch East India and West India companies; in the foreground, at right, Mercury pointing at a map.
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