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Object Type
print
Museum number
1957,0413.29
Title
Object:
Litterae
Series:
Schema seu speculum principum
Description
The Arts; centre, Apollo, wearing a laurel crown and playing a lyre, seated before a tree; at his feet are symbols of learning, including a compass, a treatise on geometry and a lute; to left, students attend lectures, beyond, the nine Muses sit at the foot of Mount Parnassus, Pegasus appears at the summit; to right, figures in a formal garden and a palace, in which a painter is at work Engraving
Producer name
After:
Jan van der Straet
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1597
(or after)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
214 millimetres
Width:
281 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is one of a series of five, for comment see 1874,0110.448. This copy has the same text in the lower margin as the original but in a different type.
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(381)
(Johannes Stradanus; copy)
Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor
(704.5)
(copy)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(535)
(Johannes Sadeler I, copy)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
allegory/personification
arts and sciences
classical deity
Associated names
Representation of:
Apollo
Representation of:
Pegasus
Representation of:
Muses
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland
Acquisition date
1957
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1957,0413.29