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Italia, with Venus and Apollo

Maker

(artist)
1552-1615

(engraver)

(publisher)
1560/1 - 1628 or 32 (Life dates)


1527-1598

Title

Italia, with Venus and Apollo

Date of Production

1588-1595

Dimensions

Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 26 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3191

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: upper centre edge, black ink: "I T A L I A."; lower centre edge within image, black ink: "Clariss: et Doctiss: viro Abrahamo Ortelio, Geographo // Regio, QVATVOR EVROPAE NATIONES, Joannes // et Raphael Sadelerij authores, obseruant: ergo dedic."; lower centre edge within image, black ink: "Cu[m] priv: S. Caes: M: // Ioan: Sadeler sc: // J. ab Ach fig."; lower centre edge, black ink: "Me beat ingenium, pietas, ioca, suada, salesque; // Et quicquid pulchri pulcher Apollo docet. // Singula dant relique, mihi fert vna o[m]nia tellus, // Arma, viros, palmas, oemula tecta polo. // Orbis ego sum pulchra parens, oculusque Europae: // Una Venus cunctas contineo Veneres."; lower centre edge, black print: "JOHANN von Aachen".

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