Accession number
PML 145850.45
Creator
Major, Isaak, approximately 1576-approximately 1645.
Published
[Bratislava? : s.n., ca. 1640?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Attributed to Isaak Major. Cf. Baroque art in Central Europe (below).
This plate was evidently one of a set of 4 thesis engravings, including a t.p. and three chapter or section headings, illustrating the theses of 12 doctoral students of Prof. Miklos Wesselenyi at the Jesuits' university at Nagyszombat, published in Bratislava on Aug. 12, 1640. Of the four plates, three of them, including this plate, the engraved t.p., and the plate belonging to Physica, were by Major, with the fourth plate belonging to Metaphysica engraved by Elias Widemann. Cf. Baroque art in Central Europe.
See PML 145850.44, PML 145850.149 and PML 145850.187 for engravings from the same set of thesis prints in the library's holdings.
Mounted as item 45 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Attributed to Isaak Major. Cf. Baroque art in Central Europe (below).
This plate was evidently one of a set of 4 thesis engravings, including a t.p. and three chapter or section headings, illustrating the theses of 12 doctoral students of Prof. Miklos Wesselenyi at the Jesuits' university at Nagyszombat, published in Bratislava on Aug. 12, 1640. Of the four plates, three of them, including this plate, the engraved t.p., and the plate belonging to Physica, were by Major, with the fourth plate belonging to Metaphysica engraved by Elias Widemann. Cf. Baroque art in Central Europe.
See PML 145850.44, PML 145850.149 and PML 145850.187 for engravings from the same set of thesis prints in the library's holdings.
Mounted as item 45 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; 326 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print in three panels, the lowest depicting female figures personifying Logic, including a figure shown with compass and rule, measuring the head of a man in classical dress, a woman with a mirror representing Prudence or self-knowledge, and three figures seated at a table with a scale, book, and key. Center panel shows three young women standing beneath a tree on a three tiered pedestal and holding an open sack; along the three sides of the pedestal are the phrases: Dictum omni; Dictum nullo; Que sunt eadem uni tertio; at right is a formal garden, labeled "Argumentationis Species"; at left four men are shown around a table in front of an inn or alehouse, playing a game (?) with a knife and a coil of rope. The panel at top shows a formal garden with a sign over the entrance reading, "Quinarius Universaliu".
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