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Choosing Virtue

Maker

(artist)
1523-1605

(printmaker)
c.1545 - c.1610 (Life dates)

(publisher)
ca.1510-1570 (Life dates)

Title

Choosing Virtue

Date of Production

1570

Dimensions

Height: 22.1 cm
Width: 29.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2379

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within image, lower: “IO. STRADANVS. FLAND. INVE. / H. Cock excud. 1570. / PDF [monogram] //”; lower margin: “Hinc iuuenem egregium iunctim excepere quaternae / Virtutes, quae de cardine nomen habent. / Vreris inuidia coeni incola Agnaea sed illum / Nil arcu impediunt spicula missa tuo / Quin animosa Fides, Ablabeaque candida ducant; / Relligio, et Pietas montis ad alta uocent. //”.

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