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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1870,0625.718
Title: Series: The Seven Liberal Arts
Description: The personification of Grammar; a woman seated, holding an open book surrounded by young pupils and treading on two male figures, one with a beard; after Primaticcio(?). Engraving
Producer name: Ascribed to: Francesco Primaticcio; Published by: Antonius Wierix
School/style: Flemish
Production date: 1591 (before)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 270 millimetres; Width: 189 millimetres
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Curator's comments: There are no extant drawings by Primaticcio with the subject of the Liberal Arts that resemble the series in N.H. 2003-2009.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (2003) (Wierix); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné (1523); Alvin 1866 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jan, Jérome et Antoine Wierix (1467)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: arts and sciences
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Antonia Brentano; Purchased through: F A C Prestel (sale Frankfurt, 16.v.1870/1548); Purchased through: Colnaghi
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Johann Melchior Birckenstock
Acquisition date: 1870
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1870,0625.718

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