print
- Museum number
- 1845,0825.469
- Description
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Jupiter; the deity in the sky identified by an inscription: 'GIOVE' riding a chariot drawn by eagles; in front of him Ganymede kneeling; the wheels of the chariot with signs of the zodiac inscribed: 'SAGITARIO' and 'PISCE'; below the various occupations of men of different distinction and wealth: hunters, falconers, courtiers and poets crowned with laurel garlands (the latter represented by Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio reading in a classical structure). c.1464
Engraving
- Production date
- 1464 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 320 millimetres
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Width: 219 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print belongs to the so-called 'original' series of 'Planets', a group of engravings created probably around 1464 in a style called by Hind 'Fine Manner'. For this group see the entry for Hind A.III.1a (1845-8-25-474).
As Hind noted, the dog and stag in the background appear in reverse in the 'Pattern plate of Beast and Birds' (Hind.A.II.2) and in the same direction in one of the Otto prints (Hind.A.IV.25). The dog chasing the hare in the l upper corner is found in one of the drawings in the 'Florentine Picture-Chronicle', an album of pen-and-ink drawings in the BM (eg. f. 12; see B. Degenhart, A. Schmitt, 'Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, Teil I: Sud-und Mittelitalien', 4, Berlin, 1968; pls. 392).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1845
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1845,0825.469