A woman sits as a personification of piety at two stone tablets bearing the ten commandments. Around her head is a halo and in her right hand she has a palm branch. Behind her are some books. A putto crowns her with a laurel wreath and with her foot she tramples another putto lying by a bag of money. Beneath the scene there is an eight-line, Latin text describing the scene and virtue in general., Piety, print maker: Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg, (mentioned on object), Abraham Bloemaert, (mentioned on object), publisher: Robert de Baudous, (mentioned on object), print maker: Leiden, Utrecht


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