Accession number:
PML 140007, no. 39
Published:
[Amsterdam?], 1717.
Description:
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 95 x 150 mm; plate mark: 102 x 158 mm; sheet: 116 x 171 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
An illustration for an unidentified publication.
Engraving of medal commemorating the Peace of Westphalia and end of the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Netherlands.
Variant Title:
Motto: Pax Hispano Batava ...
Summary:
Obverse and reverse of the medal depicted; at left: the goddess of peace is drawn in a chariot by two lions, who are trampling upon a battle flag as a cannon, shield, pistol, and other tools of war lie under the wheels of the chariot; Peace clasps a horn of plenty in one arm and raises the caduceus of Mercury over the two lions with the other hand; at right: cupids hold up a suspended field of cloth above a harbor crowded with ships, with ten lines in Latin, beginning: Pacis foelicitas.
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