Accession number
PML 140007, no. 54
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam], 1712.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Print used as a title page illustration for: "De vermiste molenaar" [play adapted by P.A. de Huybert van Kruiningen from "Le Mari retrouvé" by F. Carton Dancourt]. Amsterdam: By de erven van J. Lescailje, D. Rank en A. Van de Gaete, 1713.
Print used as a title page illustration for: "De vermiste molenaar" [play adapted by P.A. de Huybert van Kruiningen from "Le Mari retrouvé" by F. Carton Dancourt]. Amsterdam: By de erven van J. Lescailje, D. Rank en A. Van de Gaete, 1713.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 68 x 58 mm; plate mark: 74 x 63 mm; sheet: 171 x 120 mm
Summary
Print shows Apollo, as the god of poetry and music, seated on a dais on Mount Parnassus; he holds out two laurel crowns for Melpomene and Thalia, the muses of tragedy and comedy; in the background is a temple and Pegasus is visible flying at left.
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