Accession number
PML 140007, no. 157
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam], 1719.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Marriage print issued as a title page vignette for a printed Epithalamium: Huwelykszangen ter bruilofte van den heere Jacob Alewyn Ghysen junior, en jongkvrouwe Perina Vorsterman. In den echt vereenigt binnen Amsterdam, den 19den van wintermaandt 1719, Amsterdam: Joannes Oosterwyk, 1719
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark: 123 x 153 mm; sheet: 142 x 170 mm
Summary
An allegorical scene set in a woody landscape, with young couple joining hands before the statue of a female figure holding a heart on a plate and a fasces; at right, Hymen, lighting his torch; a female figure holding a key and petting a dog; and three allegorical figures; at left, a infant with a lamb, a girl carrying a pelican, two winged figures carrying a rope. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
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