Accession number
PML 140007, no. 92
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, engraver.
Published
[Rotterdam] : [Arnold Willis], 1718
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Issued as a frontispiece plate in Frans Greenwood's "Gedichten" (Rotterdam: Arnold Willis, 1719).
With six lines of verse in French below: Les danses des Bergers, leurs divertissemens ... Je me plais à tracer dans un Tableau rustique.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Issued as a frontispiece plate in Frans Greenwood's "Gedichten" (Rotterdam: Arnold Willis, 1719).
With six lines of verse in French below: Les danses des Bergers, leurs divertissemens ... Je me plais à tracer dans un Tableau rustique.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 165 x 106 mm; sheet: 177 x 113 mm
Summary
Shepherds revelling in idyllic landscape; in the foreground, at left, man courting shepherdess and woman shearing sheep; at right, two figures playing flute while a woman is making a laurel wreath; in the middleground, shepherds dancing and playing music; two putti carrying a beehive hovering above them. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
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