Accession number
PML 145850.200
Creator
Matham, Adriaan, 1599?-1660, engraver.
Published
[Netherlands] : Jan Houwens excudit, 1620.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
With four columns of engraved verse below: Felix illa aetas, omnique beatior aevo ... Aureus hanc vitam in terris Saturnus agebat. Th. Schrevelius.
Signed below: Cum privil. Sa. Cae. Mtis. H Goltzius inventor. Adrianus Matham sculptor. Jan Houwens excudit 1620.
Inserted as item 200 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 plate mark; genitalia of some of the naked figures drawn over with ink and subsequently erased by former owner(s).
With four columns of engraved verse below: Felix illa aetas, omnique beatior aevo ... Aureus hanc vitam in terris Saturnus agebat. Th. Schrevelius.
Signed below: Cum privil. Sa. Cae. Mtis. H Goltzius inventor. Adrianus Matham sculptor. Jan Houwens excudit 1620.
Inserted as item 200 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 plate mark; genitalia of some of the naked figures drawn over with ink and subsequently erased by former owner(s).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 291 x 417 mm; sheet: 309 x 423 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an allegory of the golden age, with naked men, women, and children disporting themselves beside a wooded stream, surrounded by various animals and fruitful trees and plants. In the center of the design, a youthful Saturn stands before a globe surmounted by a cornucopia, with a group of classical goddesses standing below.
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