Accession number
PML 145850.44
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.
Signed within image: Isaac Maior f.
This plate was evidently one of a set of 4 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 Logica, were by Major, with the fourth plate belonging to Metaphysica engraved by Elias Widemann. Cf. Baroque art in Central Europe.
See PML 145850.45, PML 145850.149 and PML 145850.187 for engravings from the same set of thesis prints in the library's holdings.
Mounted as item 44 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).
Library's copy imperfect; torn with significant loss to image at upper left.
Signed within image: Isaac Maior f.
This plate was evidently one of a set of 4 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 Logica, were by Major, with the fourth plate belonging to Metaphysica engraved by Elias Widemann. Cf. Baroque art in Central Europe.
See PML 145850.45, PML 145850.149 and PML 145850.187 for engravings from the same set of thesis prints in the library's holdings.
Mounted as item 44 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).
Library's copy imperfect; torn with significant loss to image at upper left.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 326 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print in two panels, the lower depicting a landscape with the many-breasted figure of Nature standing in the center of the composition, surrounded by various animals, including a lion, horse, bull, hedgehog, etc., at left, and an ostrich, dog, fox, sheep, and stag (shown here in the act of devouring a snake), peacock, and other birds, at right. In the background at right is depicted the creation of Eve from Adam's rib. The upper composition shows a classical female figure representing the arts, holding a compass and seated among objects representing the various branches of artistic endeavor, including a canvas on an easel, anvil, graver, shield, caduceus, anchor, lute, geometry books, cannon, sculpture, trowel, etc. At right, a mother bear is shown "forming" her cub by licking it, while at left a monkey is shown putting on a pair of boots; in the background, a cart propelled by a sail is shown on a beach.
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