Accession number
PML 140007, no. 46
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam?], [1711]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from: Catalogue des piéces qui composent l'oeuvre de B. Picart, dessinateur et graveur (approximately 1740).
Possibly intended as a publisher's device; appears as early as 1712 as a title-page vignette on publications of Dutch printer/publisher Caspar Fritsch (active in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, 1691-1719), as well as those issued later in the century by his widow.
Possibly intended as a publisher's device; appears as early as 1712 as a title-page vignette on publications of Dutch printer/publisher Caspar Fritsch (active in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, 1691-1719), as well as those issued later in the century by his widow.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark: 57 x 82 mm; sheet: 66 x 91 mm
Summary
Mercury flies aloft, holding his caduceus as he scatters books over the earth from a large sack or cornucopia held over his shoulder; with motto "Terrarum ubique munera spargit".
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