print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1937,0802.1.73
- Title
- Series: Lof-sanck van Bacchus
- Description
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Bacchus standing under a doorway of a dilapidated farm building, presenting wine to farmers surrounding him; in left middle ground, a group of peasants beating a man with their flails; in left background, Bacchus and Ariadne holding hands on a cloud; trimmed and pasted on a sheet; illustration to Daniel Heinsius' "Nederduytsche Poemata" (Willem Jansz.: Amsterdam, 1616)
Engraving
- Production date
- 1616
- Dimensions
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Height: 77 millimetres
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Width: 128 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one of twelve illustrations to the first edition of Heinsius' 'Nederduytsche Poemata', trimmed and pasted at the back of a volume containing two series published by Frederick de Wit and some miscellaneous prints. For a comment on the entire volume see 1937,0802.1.1. For a complete set of illustrations to the 'Nederduytsche Poemata' see 1973,U.557-568.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Nederduytsche Poemata by een vergadert en uytgegeven door P.S.
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred to the department from the British Library in 1889; originally part of Hans Sloane's collection. Unidentified seal (showing a monkey?) in red wax on 1937.0802.1.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1937,0802.1.73