Summer, Aestas (title on object), The four seasons (series title), Ceres, the personification of summer, sits on a cloud and is surrounded by three personified months carrying fruit baskets, olive branches and grain. Ceres is crowned with a wreath of grain, in her hands she holds a burning torch and a sickle. The print is part of a four-part series of prints about the four seasons., print, print maker: Gerard de Lairesse, (mentioned on object), after painting by: Gerard de Lairesse, (mentioned on object), publisher: Nicolaes Visscher (I), (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1675, paper, etching,

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