Accession number
PML 140007, no. 101
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Hamburg] : [Kissner], 1721
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Issued as a frontispiece plate in volume I of "Poesie der Niedersachsen" (Hamburg : Kissner, 1721), Christian Friedrich Weichmann, editor.
Signed and dated: B. Picart fecit. 1721.
Signed and dated: B. Picart fecit. 1721.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 207 x 145 mm; sheet: 218 x 155 mm
Summary
A female figure (Fame?) holding a trumpet seated beside a pyramid shaped monument inscribed "Alunt Cygnos et flumina nostra", with a scene depicting the flaying of Marsyas on the base; with swans in the foreground and background at left.
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