print
- Museum number
- 1871,0812.752
- Description
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Copy in the same direction of Cornelis Cort's engraving after Zuccaro's 'The Calumny of Apelles' (Hampton Court Palace); central composition with the king/judge with ass's ears enthroned at left, gathered around him, Anger chained and blindfolded in the foreground, Minerva standing at far left, Calumny, a woman, shouting in his ear and holding out a torch, various monstrous and animal figures representing Envy at his feet; standing before the king, Deceit, a serpent-tailed male figure, pulls on the skin cloak of the defendant, a young man, who is accompanied by Mercury and Innocence, a naked woman holding an ermine-like animal, broken yoke on the ground before them; a scene of bestormed harvesters in the background; ornate frame with Minerva's shield at each corner.
Engraving
- Production date
- 1572-1580
- Dimensions
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Height: 300 millimetres
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Width: 407 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to Hollstein, this plate in the second state has the address of Thomassin and Turpin added.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Acquisition notes
- Inlaid into an early album sheet, numbered 15 top right
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,0812.752
