Cartouche with allegorical performance with history and Greek states, Jan Caspar Philips, 1741 print History with book and writing spring is surrounded by personifications of ancient Greek states and Minerva with shield as a personification of wisdom to support her. Sparta is standing next to her with the laws of Lycurgus. For them, Achaea lies on the ground with a map of the Achaeian union. Behind it, Sicily is surrounded by soldiers, by whom it is unleashed. In the background the volcano the Etna spewing. In the frame of the Cartouche maps of Greece and Sicily. paper engraving / etching 'Hi
Cartouche with allegorical performance with history and Greek states, Jan Caspar Philips, 1741 print History with book and writing spring is surrounded by personifications of ancient Greek states and Minerva with shield as a personification of wisdom to support her. Sparta is standing next to her with the laws of Lycurgus. For them, Achaea lies on the ground with a map of the Achaeian union. Behind it, Sicily is surrounded by soldiers, by whom it is unleashed. In the background the volcano the Etna spewing. In the frame of the Cartouche maps of Greece and Sicily. paper engraving / etching 'Historia'; 'Historia' (Ripa). Greece (one of the four world empires. (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena) Greece. Sparta. Achaea. ACHAEIAN BONG. Sicily. Etna
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