Accession number
PML 145850.149
Creator
Wideman, Elias, 1619?-1652, engraver.
Published
[Bratislava? : s.n., 1640?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
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. Cf. Baroque art in Central Europe.
See PML 145850.44, PML 145850.45, and PML 145850.187 for engravings from the same set of thesis prints in the library's holdings.
Mounted as item 149 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: trimmed and cropped at top with loss to image.
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. Cf. Baroque art in Central Europe.
See PML 145850.44, PML 145850.45, and PML 145850.187 for engravings from the same set of thesis prints in the library's holdings.
Mounted as item 149 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: trimmed and cropped at top with loss to image.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 280 x 212 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the classical female figure of Metaphysica holding a torch labeled "Neo sic satis" as she pulls aside a dark netted curtain hung in front of a stone gateway; at lower left is a winged creature with the head of a man, claws of a crab or scorpian, and serpent's tail, and the figure of a sphinx is visible in the folds of the dark curtain at right.
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