Accession number
PML 140007, no. 139
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
Amsterdam, 1714
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 138 x 83 mm; sheet: 135 x 86 mm
Summary
Allegorical scene with female figure (History?) seated at center, with tablet and quill; she is surrounded by putti engaged in various activities; in the foreground, at left, a putto playing a lyre, and another kneeling before another and kissing his hand; at right, a putto with a composing stick setting type from a type case, and another carrying a child; two putti hovering above History, with one of them carrying a portrait of Charles II. Various figures in the design are numbered, probably in reference to an accompanying explanatory key (not present).
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