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Object Type
print
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
Netherlandish
Production date
1565
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
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