Accession number
PML 140007, no. 201
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam], 1718.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Marriage print issued as a title page vignette for a printed Epithalamium: Zangen, ter bruilofte van den heere Abraham Bruin, en jonkvrouwe Debora van Vollenhoven vereenigt den IV. Van herfstmaendt. MDCCXVIII, Amsterdam: z.n., 1718.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 240 x 192 mm; plate mark: 246 x 198 mm; sheet: 257 x 206 mm
Summary
Print shows a young couple standing in front of a garden gate, and, at left, Hymen standing before a temple and greeting them; hovering above is a winged female figure carrying a cornucopia, with three children coming out of it; she hands a key to the young man; in ornate border, with putti hanging garlands of flowers and shooting arrows at a shield decorated with a heart at the bottom.
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