Caption
Personification of Innocence, surrounded by Envy and Gossip, washes her hands (right plate), Allegory on the pleasures of country life (left plate), Explanation of the plate for envy (right plate), print, book illustration, Numbered on print on the right side of the sheet: Part II, Page: 203. On print on the left side of the sheet: Part II, Page: 244., watermark, printmaker: Johannes Folkema, printmaker: Adolf van der Laan, publisher: Jacobus Verheyde (I), Amsterdam, 1723, paper, etching, letterpress printing, two etchings with text in letterpress on a folded sheet, proof, height 126 mm x width 83 mm x height 141 mm x width 82 mm, height 160 mm x width 207 mm x width 414 mm, Proofs for: Roeland van Leuve. Roeland van Leuve's Mixing Works. Amsterdam: Jacobus Verheyden, 1723., rural life, Envy, 'Invidia' (Ripa), personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins, Innocence, 'Innocenza', 'Innocenza o purità' (Ripa), Calumny, Detraction, 'Biasimo vitioso', 'Calunnia', 'Detrattione', 'Maledicenza' (Ripa), An aged printed sheet shows two detailed vertical engravings separated by a column of centered printed lines; the left engraving depicts a winding river through a pastoral landscape with a distant town under a sky with radiating light, trees and buildings along the banks, small boats on the water, and figures on a riverside path including a person seated and another standing; the right engraving shows a group of robed figures gathered outdoors beneath trees, one figure seated at a small table or basin and another reclining with a dog at their feet, with drapery, foliage, and a standing figure partially turned away.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B33_145
License type
Rights managed
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50.8Mb (12.1Mb) / 23.0in x 8.6in / 6914 x 2570 (300dpi)