Accession number
PML 140007, no. 176
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[The Hague] : [Pieter de Hondt], [1732]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
An independent impression of a print issued as a frontispiece illustration to Frans van Mieris's Histori Der Nederlandsche Vorsten (The Hague : Pieter de Hondt, 1732).
Caption text in Dutch; Picart also produced a state with French text for print collectors (Bartelings, loc. cit.).
An independent impression of a print issued as a frontispiece illustration to Frans van Mieris's Histori Der Nederlandsche Vorsten (The Hague : Pieter de Hondt, 1732).
Caption text in Dutch; Picart also produced a state with French text for print collectors (Bartelings, loc. cit.).
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 315 x 215 mm; plate mark: 345 x 222 mm; sheet: 485 x 330 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows winged History holding out a pen with one hand and with the other pointing at the tapestry held up by Time and Fame. It shows the Maid of Holland, recognizable by her sheaf of arrows and the lion at her feet. To the right of her throne are Liberty, holding a staff with liberty hat, and Religion. In front of them sits Thetis, who is faced by Mars, while above them hovers Mercury: allegories, respectively, of the Dutch naval power, national courage and military art, and extensive trade. The tapestry is bordered with portraits of the princes whose fortunes Painting is asked to describe.
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