Accession number
PML 145850.202
Creator
Ghisi, Giorgio, 1520-1582, engraver.
Published
Mantua : [s.n.], 1560.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
3rd state (i.e. 1st published state, with letters) as described by Boorsch & Lewis.
Inserted as item 202 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 trimmed to image.
3rd state (i.e. 1st published state, with letters) as described by Boorsch & Lewis.
Inserted as item 202 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 trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 364 x 316 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print of The calumny of Apelles, showing a man with the pointed ears of an ass, flanked by Ignorance and Suspicion, sitting on a throne at right and extending his hand to Calumny who approaches dragging a boy by the hair, assisted by Envy and attended by Treachery and Deceipt, who is shown carrying a net. In the background at far left, Repentance stands with hands clasped in distress, looking upward into the sky at the naked figure of Truth who is borne aloft by winged Time.
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