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Aestas Cereris (Summer: Ceres holding a sickle)

Maker

(artist)
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

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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