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Object Type
Museum number: F,1.290
Title: Object: Rhetorica; Series: Seven Liberal Arts
Description: Rhetoric, a seated woman, holding a caduceus, leans over and engages with a seated man writing on a tablet; an elderly man with a long beard places his hands on the shoulder of the younger scholar; two birds, including a parrot, sit on a pile of books labelled "CICERO" etc on the ground; after Floris. 1565 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Cornelis Cort; After: Frans Floris; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style
Production date: 1565
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 225 millimetres; Width: 278 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For comment see F,1.289.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (133.I) (Frans Floris); Bierens de Haan 1948 / L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais 1533-1578 (227); Van de Velde 1975 / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570), Leven en Werken (120); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (81); Wouk, Frans Floris / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance. (133)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: arts and sciences; scholar
Acquisition date: 1810 (before)
Acquisition notes: There is no indication of provenance on the verso of the print.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: F,1.290

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