print;
album
- Museum number
- 1889,0816.4.8
- Title
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Object: Sibylla Samia
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Series: The Sibyls
- Description
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Plate 4: The Samian Sibyl; seen in profile to the right, holding a crown of thorns in her arm and reading a book; she wears an elaborate headress; composition placed in a circle; the circular margin is lettered with Latin text; in the corners of the square frame encasing the circle are thorns on a cross-hatched background; around this square is a decorative border with floral flourishes; below the image, a cartouche, with a decorative border, containing four lines of Latin verse; copy after Crispijn de Passe. 1601-1612
Engraving
- Production date
- 1601-1612
- Dimensions
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Height: 178 millimetres
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Width: 125 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See the curator's comment for 1889,0816.4.1, for information on this series and 1889,0816.3.1 for information on the album containing the set. For impressions from the original set by Crispijn de Passe, see 1875,0710.307-320.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1889,0816.4.8