The poet Juvenal kneels for Melpomene, the muse of tragedy. Right background Venus and Cupid, Death, Envy and a veiled woman. From the sky a woman tumbles the contents of a cornucopia on the poet. Bystanders watching. In the margin of the title in the Nederlands. Manufacturer : print maker: Bernard Picart (possible) Place manufacture: Amsterdam Date: 1711 Physical characteristics: etching and engra material: paper Technique: etching / engra (printing process) Measurements: plate edge: H 133 mm × b 88 mmToelichtingTitelpagina for: D. Junius Juvenalis. Satyra X, or tenth berispdicht. Amsterdam:
The poet Juvenal kneels for Melpomene, the muse of tragedy. Right background Venus and Cupid, Death, Envy and a veiled woman. From the sky a woman tumbles the contents of a cornucopia on the poet. Bystanders watching. In the margin of the title in the Nederlands. Manufacturer : print maker: Bernard Picart (possible) Place manufacture: Amsterdam Date: 1711 Physical characteristics: etching and engra material: paper Technique: etching / engra (printing process) Measurements: plate edge: H 133 mm × b 88 mmToelichtingTitelpagina for: D. Junius Juvenalis. Satyra X, or tenth berispdicht. Amsterdam: Erven Jacob Lescaille, 1711. Subject: Melpomene (one of the Muses); 'Melpomene' (RIPA) writer, poet, author death axis skeletonEnvy; 'Invidia' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins (story of) Venus (Aphrodite) (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros) 'Cornucopia' Horn of Plenty
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