Luce Myrès Seen from the Front
Prints and Drawings
Artist | |
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Culture | Italian |
Place of production | Italy |
Date | 1587 |
Object type | |
Medium, technique | paper, engraving (later state) |
Dimensions | 455 x 302 mm (sheet, trimmed close to platemark) |
Inventory number | 7971 |
Collection | Prints and Drawings |
On view | This artwork is not on display |
later state
Signed and dated lower centre: ‘Iacomo Valegio Fecit 1587’, inscribed with publisher’s address below: ‘In Bassano per il Remondini’, lower left: ‘Paulo Farinato/Inuentor’ and in the margin: ‘Ecco ingannata dal crudel serpente/La prima madre col suo rio consiglio/Semplive inganna il pio parente/Si che al uietato frutto ci da di piglio//Onde al divin mandato inobediente/Casco di morte sotto ogni periglio:/E trasse il suo cadre a morte insieme/I discendenti in tutto l’human seme’
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