Accession number
PML 140007, no. 232
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam], 1714.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Two lines of caption text below image.
Engraving issued as a frontispiece illustration to Hédelin d'Aubignac's La pratique du théâtre (Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1715).
Engraving issued as a frontispiece illustration to Hédelin d'Aubignac's La pratique du théâtre (Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1715).
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 136 x 85 mm; plate mark: 146 x 90 mm; sheet: 222 x 147 mm
Summary
Allegorical scene, with Apollo addressing Melpomene and Thalia, who are standing at left; at right, a kneeling figure drawing a circle on the ground, a bust of Aristophane, and a bust of Horatius.
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