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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Allegory of vanity (II) [print].

Accession number
PML 55623, plate 129 (lower)
Creator
Reverdy, Georges, active 1529-1561, engraver.
Published
[15--]
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.
Notes
Title from Bartsch; design lettered at head: QUOD VIDES NON DIU.
Attribution disputed; Bartsch lists the engraving among the doubtful works of Reverdy.
One of a series of four engravings, three containing allegorical vanitas figures and the fourth the Roman alphabet.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 101 x 166 mm
Provenance
Jacques Auguste de Thou (inscription), Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr., Henry S. Morgan.
Summary
A cartouche containing a representation of a woman looking in a hand-mirror within an oval frame.
Classification
Department