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Plate 30 of 'Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum ac Veteris Sculpturae Vestigia': Veneris Emergentis Nativitas

Maker

(artist)
1615-1700



(publisher)
active 1627-1640 (Life dates)

Title

Plate 30 of 'Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum ac Veteris Sculpturae Vestigia': Veneris Emergentis Nativitas

Date of Production

1693

Medium

etching on paper

Dimensions

Height: 31.4 cm
Width: 46.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.24.30

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: VENERIS EMERGENTIS NATIVITAS / EMERSAM PELAGI NVPER GENITALIBVS VNDIS / CYPRIN APELLEI CERNE LABORIS OPVS: / VT COMPLEXA MANV MADIDOS SALIS AEQVORE CRINES / HVMIDVLIS SPVMAS STRINGIT VTRAQUE COMIS / IAM TIBINOS, CYPRI, IVNO INQVIT, ET INNVBA PALLAS / CEDIMVS, ET FORMAE PRAEMIA DEFERIMVS. //

Inscription: 1. Natam VENEREM e maris spuma utraque manu rorantes capillos detergit. Ipsam [...] sic descripsit Ausonius / Rom[a]e ex Typographia Dominici de Rubeis H[a]eredis Io. Iacobi de Rubeis ad Temp. S.M.ae de Pace cum priu. S. Pont. //

Inscription: Reliqu[a]e Person[a]e appict[a]e diuersi argumenti fabulam agunt, alter enim est / 2. PERSEVS e Gorgonibus rediens adiuuante / 3. MINERVA Medues capite amputato: Altera est 4. ANDROMEDA e scolpulo, / in quo fuerat alligata, ac Ceto exposita, ipsi Perseo liberatori, ac sponso / dexteram porrigens. / In Aedibus Matth[a]eiorum //

Inscription: R.V.A.f. //

Inscription: 3 / 2 / 1 / 4 //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: P. S. BARTOLI //

Inscription: 980/53(36) //

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