Caption
Allegory of abundance through peace, print, Female personification of abundance with a cornucopia filled with fruit in her left arm and a torch in her right. She stands with her foot on a piece of armor. Next to her lie a lamb and a lion., printmaker: Gaspare Oselli, Italy, after drawing by Federico Zuccaro, publisher: Niccolò Nelli, Venice, 1546 - 1576, paper, engraving, intaglio printmaking technique, engraving with plate tone, height 238 mm x width 172 mm, helmet, Abundantia (abundance) as Roman personification, lamb, torch - BB - torch held upside down, beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion - FF - fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'), 'Mostri' (Ripa), A monochrome engraving of a standing woman in draped classical clothing, her head tilted downward with eyes closed and hair tied back under a headscarf, one arm holding a large horn-shaped cornucopia filled with fruit and foliage and the other hand resting on a long staff; folds of fabric gather around her waist and fall to the ground where a variety of rounded objects and a fur or pelt lie, and a reclining lion with a detailed mane rests beside her with its head lowered.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B26_064
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Available size
36.4Mb (10.8Mb) / 10.1in x 14.0in / 3025 x 4205 (300dpi)