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Fides

Maker

(artist)
1532-1603

(printmaker)
1560-1618

(publisher)
1537-1612

Title

Fides

Dimensions

Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 29.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2504

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

Keywords


figre male female

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper centre, within image: “TRIVM HVMANI GENERIS ORDINVM SIVE STATVVM, / ECCLESIASTICI VIDELICET, REGII, ET PLEBII, / GRAPHICA DELINIATIO. //”; within image: “VERITAS / FIDES //”; lower right, within image: “en marten de Vos inuen. Adrian Collaert sculp. Philip. Galle [undecipherable] //”; lower margin: “Spargere probata Veritatis femina, Prudentium cum simplicai modestia, Vulgo sacramenta explicare mystica, I / Deo sacrificare, ac pias fundere preces; Serpentium instar : columbarium sequi; ECCLESIASTICI officia sunt ordinis. / AD AMPLISS. ET REVERENDISS DOMINVM D. IOANNEM SARACENVM, DIVI VEDASTI APVD ATREBATES ABBATEM MERITISSVM, / PHILIPPVS GALLAEVS DEICABAT, //”.

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