print; frontispiece

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Object Type: print; frontispiece
Museum number: Q,4.191
Description: Statue of Junius Juvenal on a pedestal lettered with his name, holding a scroll; Fame approaching in flight from left, blowing a trumpet, with cloth lettered 'Mores Hominu / The Manners / of Men'; sixteen satyrs in foreground and in wooded area in background; frontispiece to Robert Stapylton's 'Mores Hominum. The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal' (London: 1660); after Robert Streeter. Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Wenceslaus Hollar; After: Robert Streater
School/style: British; Bohemian
Production date: 1660 (c.)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 297 millimetres; Width: 207 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1848,0208.75 and 1850,0223.459 for other impressions and Comment.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (1752) (Hollar); Pennington 1982 / A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar (429)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: sculpture; satyr
Associated names: Illustration to: Juvenal; Representation of: Juvenal; Associated with: Sir Robert Stapylton
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Q,4.191

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