Allegorical scene with the four elements, Title page for T. Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura, 1620, Nature sits on a high pedestal, squeezing milk from three of her breasts. Next to her the personifications of the four elements. Fire, represented by a man with a fireblow and flint, on a flying eagle sits Air, below him is Water, on the left Earth. The author and title of the book and the imprint are stated on the pedestal. The whole is illuminated by the sun., print, print maker: Pieter Serwouters, publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1620, paper, engraving, heig

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