Accession number
PML 140007, no. 217
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Leipzig?], 1733.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraving issued as a frontispiece illustration for: Scriptores rei rusticae veteres Latini : Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius : quibus nunc accedit Vegetius De mulo-medicina et Gargilii Martialis fragmentum ... adiectae notae virorum clariss. integrae ... et lexicon rei rusticae / curante Io. Matthia Gesnero. Lipsae : Sumtibus Caspari Fritsch, 1733.
Three lines of verse below image: Hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini / Hanc Remus et frater: sic fortis Etruria crevit / Scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma Vergil Georg. II.
Three lines of verse below image: Hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini / Hanc Remus et frater: sic fortis Etruria crevit / Scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma Vergil Georg. II.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 229 x 167 mm; plate mark: 256 x 185 mm; sheet: 277 x 197 mm
Summary
Illustrating an episode in Vergil's Georgics II: print shows a landscape with figures engaged in various activities; on the left three figures standing beneath a beehive hung from a tree, inducing the bees to settle by hitting gongs and cymbals; in the middlegound, peasant man harvest grain with a cart pushed by an ox, and a man driving a cart fitted with millstone is drawn by two oxen; in the background, figures pick fruits, woman milk cows, figures harvest grapes, a man ploughs a field, and another sows seeds; two beehives stand in the foreground at left, and at far left stands a statue of Priapus or Vertumnus.
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