print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1874,0110.448
- Title
- Series: Schema seu speculum principum (Skills of a Prince)
- Description
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Title-page: centre, a female figure, representing nobility, enthroned, holding the arms of the House of Savoy; to left, a female, representing power, holds a feather, seated before a heap of locked chests; to right, a female, representing generosity, holds a mirror with her own reflection and a sack, from which coins and metal plate pour out. 1597
Engraving
- Production date
- 1597
- Dimensions
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Height: 223 millimetres (image size)
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Width: 283 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the title-page to a series of five plates engraved jointly by Jan Sadeler I and Raphael Sadeler I. Dedicated to Charles Emanuel Savoy and his wife Catherine. The preparatory drawing for this print is in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, inv.no.N4.
Literature: A. Baroni and M. Sellink, 'Stradanus 1523-1605: Court artist of the Medici', exh.cat. Groeningemuseum Brugge 2008-2009, Turnhout, 2012, pp.326-330, cat.no.127-132.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0110.448
