Accession number
PML 5639.47
Creator
Bonnart, Nicolas, 1637-1718, engraver, publisher.
Published
A Paris : Chez N. Bonnart, rüe St. Jacques, à l'aigle, [169-].
Notes
Title from item.
One of a series of 10 plates representing famous women of antiquity.
With five lines of prose below caption title: Porcie fille de Caton, fut élevée curiesement aux bonnes lettres ...
Item no. 47 of v. 2 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm
One of a series of 10 plates representing famous women of antiquity.
With five lines of prose below caption title: Porcie fille de Caton, fut élevée curiesement aux bonnes lettres ...
Item no. 47 of v. 2 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 233 x 177 mm; plate mark: 274 x 188 mm; sheet: 321 x 225 mm
Summary
Print shows a woman in fashionable 17th century dress seated beside a brazier at right, preparing to eat a live coal as to women at far left look on.
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