Accession number
PML 140007, no. 98
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, engraver.
Published
[Utrecht] : [Guglielmo Croon], 1730
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Issued as a frontispiece plate to an edition of Cardinal Giovanni Delfino's "Parnaso de l'Emmo" (Utrecht : Guglielmo Croon, 1730).
Library's copy closely trimmed to plate mark.
Library's copy closely trimmed to plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 128 x 77 mm; sheet: 139 x 83 mm
Summary
Apollo with his lyre among the Muses on Parnassus. One of the Muses stands on the beach and receives a book from the mouth of a dolphin. In the background at left is the winged horse Pegasus. Fame flies overhead with her trumpet which is hung with a banner reading "Delphini sacra".
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