Various allegorical figures in the garden of George Clifford, Jan Wandelaar, 1738 print Allegorical title page with the 'earth mother' Cybele in the middle, seated on a lion and a lioness, with the keys to the garden in her hand. At her feet a pot with cliffortia Ilicifolia and thereby a map of the garden of the Hartekamp. On the left an African woman offers her an aloe from Africa, a woman with a turban brings her a plant of the Coffea Arabica from Asia and a figure with a fee offers Hernandia from America. On a pedestal on which the title in Latin, a bust of George Clifford (?). On the right
Various allegorical figures in the garden of George Clifford, Jan Wandelaar, 1738 print Allegorical title page with the 'earth mother' Cybele in the middle, seated on a lion and a lioness, with the keys to the garden in her hand. At her feet a pot with cliffortia Ilicifolia and thereby a map of the garden of the Hartekamp. On the left an African woman offers her an aloe from Africa, a woman with a turban brings her a plant of the Coffea Arabica from Asia and a figure with a fee offers Hernandia from America. On a pedestal on which the title in Latin, a bust of George Clifford (?). On the right side a banana plant in bloom, and Apollo, which holds a torch in his left hand and with his right hand lifts the veil of Diana. With his feet he trampled the dragon of untruth, a reference to the counterfeit Hydra in Hamburg that Linnaeus had unmasked as deceit on his journey to Holland. On the right in the foreground two putti with a thermometer and a spade. Warm paper etching / engraving garden. (story of) Cybele, Rhea Cybele, Great Mother of the Gods (Berecynt(h)ia). plants and herbs. plants and herbs: aloe. (story of) Apollo (Phoebus). (story of) Diana (Artemis). dragon. Native peoples of the Americas. Africans. Asiatic races and peoples. thermometer. agricultural implements: spade. maps, atlases
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