Aestas Cereris (Summer: Ceres holding a sickle)
Maker
(artist)
1532-1603
(engraver)
1560-1618
(publisher)
1560-1618
1532-1603
(engraver)
1560-1618
(publisher)
1560-1618
Title
Aestas Cereris (Summer: Ceres holding a sickle)
Date of Production
1587
Dimensions
Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 27 cm
Width: 27 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.2757
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
banana
marrow
apricot
sheep dipping
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: upper margin: “AESTA CERERI S. //”; lower margin: “Adrian. Collaert scalp. et excud. //”; lower margin: “Aestiferi cum sol premit aspera terga Leonis, Flava Ceres gravidis compensat messibus aestus: / Virginis: sensim labitur in gremium; Constans a Superis praemia sudor habet. //”.
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