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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1957,0413.257
Title: Object: Amores Naturales
Description: Allegory of Natural Love; winged putti, armed with a whip, stick, bow and arrows and a rope, play with a marble lion, sculpted by Arcesilaus; a drinking horn lies on the ground; beyond, a rural landscape Engraving
Producer name: After: Jan van der Straet; Published by: Philips Galle
School/style: Flemish
Production date: 1612 (before)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 237 millimetres; Width: 177 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Illustration from Pliny the Elder's 'Natural History,' Book 36, Chapter 4 (not 5 as the inscription claims).
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (284.I) (Johannes Stradanus); Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (776)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Pliny the Elder; Associated with: Cornelis Kiliaan; Associated with: Marcus Terentius Varro
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland
Acquisition date: 1957
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1957,0413.257

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